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Bathhouse

//ˈbæθˌhaʊs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A building with baths for communal use.

    "[…] a plethora of taverns, victuals, brew houses, hostelries, bathhouses, brothels, bearbaiting and bullbaiting arenas jostled for space with shops of stockfishmongers, garlicmongers, and bakemongers."

  2. 2
    a building containing public baths wordnet
  3. 3
    A building where swimmers can change clothes.
  4. 4
    a building containing dressing rooms for bathers wordnet
  5. 5
    A business with bath-like facilities, which chiefly serves as a place for sexual encounters, especially among men.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English bathhous, bathous, from Old English bæþhūs (“bathhouse”), equivalent to bath + house. Cognate with Dutch badhuis (“bathhouse”), German Badehaus (“bathhouse”), German Low German Baadhuus, Boodhuus (“bathhouse”), Danish badehus (“bathhouse”), Norwegian Bokmål badehus (“bathhouse”), Norwegian Nynorsk badehus (“bathhouse”), Swedish badhus (“bathhouse”).

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