Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A room for sweating persons, as in the Turkish bath.
- noun In dairy business, a room for sweating cheese and carrying off the superfluous juices.
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Examples
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My father then possessed a fine domestic outbuilding with a full cold room, tepid room, three-piece sweating-room suite; natty dipping pool; integral changing area with modish pegs and clothes bunkers; separate furnace and log store; de luxe Greek marble basins and a custom-designed sea-god medallion in one newly laid mosaic floor.
A Body In The Bath House Davis, Lindsey 2001
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Here it is necessary to refer to the words of Vitruvius as explanatory of the structure of the apartments (cap.xi. lib. v.): "Here should be placed the vaulted sweating-room, twice the length of its width, which should have at each extremity, on one end the _laconicum_, made as described above, on the other end the hot bath."
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He explained that no work would be done that day, -- not in any cigar-shop or sweating-room.
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The gulf that yawned between such lives was as wide as that which separates the scholar, the artist, or the aristocrat of modern Europe from the pale toiler of a New York sweating-room, or the coal carriers of Zanzibar or
The Empire of Love William J. Dawson 1891
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It was a world silent, motionless, and bare; there long plants swayed to and fro in a fog that resembled the vapour of a sweating-room.
Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Gustave Flaubert 1850
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What, for example, can be more absurd than, in the dog-days, when room and air are particularly requisite, that the lovers of dramatic amusement in the British metropolis are to be crammed into a little theatre in the Haymarket, and stewed year after year, as in a sweating-room at a bagnio, because half a century ago an exclusive privilege was inconsiderately granted?
Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798
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a thick cloak, in which I could wrap myself; and so I slept much more comfortably under the high canopy of heaven than my companions did in their sweating-room.
Visit to Iceland Ida Pfeiffer 1827
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Several times she took Jeanne to the bath and to the sweating-room. [
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 Anatole France 1884
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