Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A piece of apparatus, much used in chemical laboratories, consisting of a vessel, commonly of sheet-copper, with double walls between which steam is caused to circulate, a practically fixed temperature being thus maintained in the interior of the vessel where materials to be dried or otherwise affected by heat are placed.
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Examples
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I thought of suggesting that he take a steam-bath with Aunt Sara, to settle his nerves, but he might have enjoyed it too much, and then gone mad repenting.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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I supposed, in my vanity, that she had just proposed our steam-bath romp to help pass the winter, but there was another reason, as I discovered the following day.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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Cold water should be sprinkled from time to time on the head during the steam-bath.
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Xavier Attall Twelve years ago, the family expanded the 12-acre property into a hotel with 20 individually designed suites, two restaurants, an English-style garden with silk tents and a spa offering traditional steam-bath hammam.
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Xavier Attall Twelve years ago, they expanded the 12-acre property into a hotel with 20 individually designed suites, two restaurants, an English-style garden with silk tents and a spa offering traditional steam-bath hammam.
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The body feels light and sprightly after a steam-bath.
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In the station itself it is light and as hot as a steam-bath.
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For the time the moist vapours of a mild steam-bath were dispersed by scorching breath as from a furnace, to the discomfort of animal life and the injury of vegetation.
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Once the sun rose, it heated the muddy earth until it was like journeying through a steam-bath, thick and swampy, the air filled with the green reek of rotting vegetation.
Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003
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Originally a stew was a sweating or steam-bath, a legacy from the Roman conquest.
Notes to "Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century." Jessica A. Browner Jessica A. Browner 1994
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