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steamie

/ ˈstiːmɪ /

noun

  1. slang,  a public wash house

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Ben Shakespeare Ferguson runs The Steamie café in Finnieston, one of the areas closest to the COP26 venue.

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The pair worked in shows such as Still Game and the Steamie and would normally be in panto or a Christmas show at this time of year.

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"What are you doing James? You're a big pink steamie," says Diesel, the bad-boy engine.

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It will have known revolutionary demonstrators, carnivals, peace protests, sectarian marchers, football supporters, regiments marching to foreign wars, pipe bands, trams, hogmanay kisses, armies of workers for the empire, armies of the unemployed, tobacco lords, neds and women off to the steamie.

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