slipper bath

noun

1. a bath in the shape of a slipper, with a covered end
2. history plural an establishment where members of the public paid to have a bath

Example Sentences

“I stabbed once,” declares page 38, “and even as I did so, I thought of skinny old Marat in his slipper bath, the nightcap about his forehead, the dim light of the candle, the shadow at the door, the stealthy tread of Charlotte Brontë with the undulled blade.”

From Washington Post

A double-doored lobby is formed in the latter apartment, and the slipper bath used as ordinarily.

From Project Gutenberg

The cariole is in form not unlike a slipper bath, both in shape and size.

From Project Gutenberg

In form, it was as like as possible to a tin slipper bath.

From Project Gutenberg

At the age of forty-five he became—as he himself expressed it—an abject slave, and he would as soon have tried to steer in a slipper bath right in the teeth of an equinoctial hurricane as have opposed the will of his wife.

From Project Gutenberg