As a kid I went to the Russian Bath with my own father. … Down in the cellar men moaned on the steam-softened planks while they were massaged abrasively with oak-leaf besoms lathered in pickle buckets.
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Besom
//ˈbiː.zəm//
Synonyms for "besom" (2 found)
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7 entriesTranslations
43 translations across 22 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- مَقَشَّة noun (broom)
- مِقَشَّة noun (broom)
Armenian
2 entries- ավել noun (broom)
- ցախավել noun (broom)
Bengali
3 entries- খেংরা noun (broom)
- ঝাঁটা noun (broom)
- বাড়ন noun (broom)
Bulgarian
2 entries- метла noun (broom)
- препарат noun (cleansing agent)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 柳條掃帚 /柳条扫帚 noun (broom)
- 淨化劑 /净化剂 noun (cleansing agent)
- 潑婦 /泼妇 noun (troublesome woman)
Dutch
1 entries- bezem noun (broom)
Finnish
4 entries- noita-akka noun (troublesome woman)
- puhdistava noun (cleansing agent)
- varpuluuta noun (broom)
- varsiluuta noun (broom)
German
3 entries- Besen noun (broom)
- Besen noun (troublesome woman)
- Reisigbesen noun (broom)
Hebrew
1 entries- מטאטא m mataté noun (broom)
Italian
1 entries- scopa di saggina noun (broom)
Kaitag
1 entries- мугу́л noun (broom)
Latvian
1 entries- slota noun (broom)
Limburgish
1 entries- bessem noun (broom)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- rivjern noun (troublesome woman)
- sopelime noun (broom)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- sopelime noun (broom)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- جاروب noun (broom)
- سوپوركه noun (broom)
- مكنسه noun (broom)
Persian
1 entries- جاروب noun (broom)
Polish
4 entries- baba jaga noun (troublesome woman)
- czarownica noun (troublesome woman)
- heksa noun (troublesome woman)
- jędza noun (troublesome woman)
Portuguese
1 entries- vassoura noun (broom)
Russian
1 entries- метла noun (broom)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- sguab noun (broom)
Ukrainian
1 entries- мiтла noun (broom)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
At Ickwell Green, in Bedfordshire, there is a permanent maypole. There, the May Queen is accompanied by moggies (raggedly dressed women) carrying besoms - birch-twig brooms.
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"Eh, but she was a besom, if a' tales be true !"
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Janet's eyes began to look dim, and I had to frown at her very hard; then I had to turn my frown on Jean ... and Janet, the besom, took advantage of my divided attention.
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