British Dictionary definitions for wash-hand basin

wash-hand basin

noun

another name for washbasin (def. 2)

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Returning one day to his dressing-room, just after Rosa had come down-stairs, he caught sight of a red stain in a wash-hand-basin.
A Simpleton
Charles Reade
And, thenceforth, the mean life returned: Lily relapsed among the potatoes and the wash-hand-basin salads.
The Bill-Toppers
Andre Castaigne
The word Palangana signifies a wash-hand-basin; but more especially the kind of basin used by barbers.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests
J. J. von Tschudi

wash-hand basin

Examples from the Web for wash-hand basin

Historical Examples

Returning one day to his dressing-room, just after Rosa had come down-stairs, he caught sight of a red stain in a wash-hand-basin.

And, thenceforth, the mean life returned: Lily relapsed among the potatoes and the wash-hand-basin salads.

The word Palangana signifies a wash-hand-basin; but more especially the kind of basin used by barbers.