washbowl
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of washbowl
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“Had a bowl of cornflakes this morning,” I wrote in my Nationwide Building Society diary, “and 10 minutes later they were in the washbowl upstairs!! It’s Lucozade and arrowroot for me today!”
From The Guardian ● Apr. 27, 2019
Her head was tilted back in a washbowl, her eyes closed, but her voice still controlled the room.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 4, 2016
I’d bring a washbowl from the bathroom, and the streams would hit it, like into a milk pail.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 26, 2015
When his stepfather leaves the bathroom, Seryozha goes shyly to the washbowl, makes a tentative little splutter of his own, and then dries himself on the same towel his stepfather used.
From Time Magazine Archive
All of a sudden--for no good reason, really, except that I was sort of in the mood for horsing around--I felt like jumping off the washbowl and getting old Stradlater in a half nelson.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
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