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Turkish bath   /tˈərkɪʃ bæθ/   Listen
Turkish bath

noun
1.
A steam room where facilities are available for a bath followed by a shower and massage.
2.
You sweat in a steam room before getting a rubdown and cold shower.  Synonyms: steam bath, vapor bath, vapour bath.





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"Turkish bath" Quotes from Famous Books



... the dice a Turkish bath, a manicure, and a careful massaging between the perspiring palms of ...
— Lady Luck • Hugh Wiley
... skeptically. "Go on an' spoil 'em. Pretty soon you'll be manicurin' their nails. I'd recommend cold cream and electric massage—it's great for sled-dogs. And sometimes a Turkish bath does 'em fine." ...
— Smoke Bellew • Jack London
... extraordinary degree. Like a salamander he basked in the heat, and would not allow either door or window to be opened, even in the midst of summer, when a large fire made the apartment almost unendurable. Cuthbert felt as though he were walking into a Turkish bath, and sat as far away from the fire as he could. After saluting him, his uncle sank back into his seat and ...
— The Secret Passage • Fergus Hume
... the sort of clothes we've been wearing for the last century or so do not show up especially well in marble. Putting classical draperies on our departed solons has been tried, but carving a statesman with only a towel draped over him, like a Roman senator coming out of a Turkish bath, is a departure from the real facts and must be embarrassing to his shade. The greatest celebrities were ever the most modest of men. I'll bet the spirit of the Father of His Country blushes every time he flits over that statue of himself alongside the Capitol at Washington—the one showing him ...
— Cobb's Bill-of-Fare • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
... for the new year (1717), but late in January went to Peterwaradin, thence to Belgrade, and arrived at Adrianople at the end of March. It was in Adrianople that Lady Mary made acquaintance with the Turkish Bath, which so impressed her that she sent home a long account of it. It was not until about 1860 that they became popular in England, a century and ...
— Lady Mary Wortley Montague - Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) • Lewis Melville


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