strigil

• A certain period of drifting is in order Ar, ; said Billy, using the edge of his hand as a strigil, scraping the snow off the back of his neck below the tweed cap. —  The Shipping News
• They had known each other since they were ten, and as neither was in a position to bring a body-slave, they had been scraping each other's backs with one borrowed strigil or another ever since. —  Davis, Lindsey - The Course of Honor
• Towels and strigils were employed for rubbing and scraping after the anointing; the strigil was, as a rule, made of iron Natural warm springs used for curative purposes are mentioned by ancient Greek writers Roman Baths._--Bathing, which was not much in vogue in Rome in the most ancient times, was more common during the Republic, and became a factor in the decay of the nation in the time of the Empire. —  Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine
• After a course of sweating the bather had the sweat removed from his body by the strigil, in much the same way as a horse is scraped with a bent piece of hoop-iron by a groom. —  Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine
• Rubbing with towels followed the use of the strigil, and the bather finally lounged in the tepidarium for a varying period before entering the outer air The boilers in use at Pompeii were three in number. —  Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine

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