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Definition of Turkish bath

1. Noun. A steam room where facilities are available for a bath followed by a shower and massage.

2. Noun. You sweat in a steam room before getting a rubdown and cold shower.

Definition of Turkish bath

1. Noun. A Middle Eastern style steam bath followed by a dip in cool water and massage. ¹

2. Noun. An establishment where these facilities are available. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Turkish Bath

Turkey red Turki Turkic Turkic-speaking Turkic language Turkish Turkish Angora Turkish Delight Turkish Empire Turkish Hizballah

Turkish Republic Turkish Sign Language Turkish Van Turkish Vankedisi Turkish alphabet Turkish bath (current term) Turkish baths Turkish boxwood Turkish bread Turkish capital

Turkish coffee Turkish coffees Turkish corsair Turkish delight Turkish delights Turkish lira Turkish monetary unit Turkish pizza Turkish saddle Turkish tobacco

Literary usage of Turkish bath

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"A Turkish bath might be a very capital thing for some people, but I was sure it would never do for me. However, Smith- ers talked me over, and away we went ..."

2. A Handbook of therapeutics by Sydney Ringer (1886)
"At each stage of the process the Turkish bath cleanses the system : the perspiration carrying off, and the cold consuming, by increased oxydation, ..."

3. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1906)
"At a Turkish bath GENTLE reader, have you ever bathed? Turkish bathed? I wot not. I have, wo is me, ... The preliminaries of the Turkish bath are simple. ..."

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