Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The protracted exposure of the person to the action of the air, for the promotion of health, usually under the direct rays of the sun. See
sun-bath . - noun An arrangement for drying substances by exposing them to air of any desired temperature.
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Examples
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The air-bath will invigorate and strengthen the system.
Papers on Health John Kirk
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The sudden air-bath probably cooled his choler, for, in a few moments, we found ourselves in a pacific explanation about the luckless pencil.
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot
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Practice in a room with open window, with little clothes on, or with none; a daily air-bath is very conducive to health.
Papers on Health John Kirk
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After this air-bath, pure water of the temperature of one hundred and forty to one hundred and sixty degrees is admitted into the retort, and the linten is immersed in it for five or six hours.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various
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An air-bath promotes a healthy skin and aids it in the performance of its normal functions.
How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science Eugene Lyman Fisk 1907
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Brushing the teeth, washing the hands, shaving, etc., necessarily consume some time during which the luxury of an air-bath can be enjoyed.
How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science Eugene Lyman Fisk 1907
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Not every one can visit air-bath establishments or outdoor gymnasia or take the modern nude cure by which juvenile consumptives are sometimes treated (even in winter, after becoming gradually accustomed to the cold); but any one can spend at least a little time in a state of nature.
How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science Eugene Lyman Fisk 1907
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I very often went to the Lake of Pergola alone with my Russian manservant to take what I called an air-bath.
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In an entirely natural and unembarrassed way we gave ourselves up entirely to the liberating feelings aroused by this light - and air-bath, and passed these splendid hours in joyous singing and dancing, in wantonly childish fashion, freed from the burden of a false civilization.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899
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It is said also, I know not on what authority, that he made his beautiful daughters take an air-bath naked on the terrace every morning.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899
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