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Wash-hand basin   /wɑʃ-hænd bˈeɪsən/   Listen
Wash-hand basin

noun
1.
A basin for washing the hands ('wash-hand basin' is a British expression).  Synonyms: handbasin, lavabo, washbasin, washbowl.






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"Wash-hand basin" Quotes from Famous Books



... 'faith, I'm in good quarters!' and had leisure, during the half-hour's interval, not only to advance my own person to the utmost polish of elegance which it is capable of receiving, to admire the pedigree of the Pontos hanging over the chimney, and the Ponto crest and arms emblazoned on the wash-hand basin and jug, but to make a thousand reflections on the happiness of a country life—upon the innocent friendliness and cordiality of rustic intercourse; and to sigh for an opportunity of retiring, like Ponto, to my own fields, to my own vine and fig-tree, with a placens uxor in my domus, ...
— The Book of Snobs • William Makepeace Thackeray



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