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I must state, in truth, though with deep mortification, that I cannot find in inventories even of Revolutionary times the slightest sign of the presence of balneary appurtenances in bed-rooms; not even of ewers, lavers, and basins, nor of pails and tubs.

—Customs and Fashions in Old New England

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Of or pertaining to baths or bathing. The French do not treat their beaches as we do ours—as places for a glance, a dip, or a trot, places animated simply during the balneary hours. H. James, Jr., Portraits of Places, p. 142.
A room or provision of any kind for bathing. The balnearies and bathing-places. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., vi. 7.

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I must state, in truth, though with deep mortification, that I cannot find in inventories even of Revolutionary times the slightest sign of the presence of balneary appurtenances in bed-rooms; not even of ewers, lavers, and basins, nor of pails and tubs. — Customs and Fashions in Old New England