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(noun) the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) / (noun) the act or action of bathing / (noun) a building housing bathing and toilet facilities on a military base

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ablutions



The jazz lady performs her ablutions.

I've definitely seen this word before but totally spaced on the meaning (I guessed "rituals")

—p.150 by Karen Green
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7 years, 7 months ago


he was not clean and asked us to wait downstairs while he performed his ablutions

—p.183 by Percival Everett
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1 year, 8 months ago


in performing these ablutions she unburdened herself of the other Charlotte Hauser, the one the boys from Baxter had despised.

—p.458 by Jennifer Egan
notable
2 years, 11 months ago


entire families performing their ablutions before drowning themselves

—p.49 Mexican Notebooks (31) by Victor Serge
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7 years, 3 months ago


Regular baths were taken in the evening. For morning ablutions, the round, rubber English tubs were used.

—p.84 by Vladimir Nabokov
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5 years, 3 months ago