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/ʃˈaʊər bæθ/ Listen

noun

Shower n.

A fall or rain or hail of short duration; sometimes, but rarely, a like fall of snow. "In drought or else showers." "Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers."

That which resembles a shower in falling or passing through the air copiously and rapidly. "With showers of stones he drives them far away."

A copious supply bestowed. (R.) "He and myself Have travail'd in the great shower of your gifts."

Shower bath, a bath in which water is showered from above, and sometimes from the sides also.

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Etymology of 'Shower bath'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shower bath" Quotes from Famous Books

... shops spring up on every street, and Charles F. Jenkins sent us a big sack of Pocono buckwheat flour and we're eating a basketful of griddle cakes every morning for breakfast. Terrible to be a coward; we always turn on the hot water first in the shower bath, except the first morning we used it. The plumber got the indicator on the wrong way round, and when you turn to the place marked HOT it comes down like ice. Our idea of a really happy man is the fellow driving a wagonload of truck just in front of a trolley car, holding it back ...

— Pipefuls • Christopher Morley

... the floor of an ordinary dressing-room. Upon this may be placed the bath tub or basin, or a person may use it to stand upon while taking a sponge bath. The various kinds of baths, both hot and cold, are the shower bath, the douche, the hip bath and the ...

— Our Deportment - Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society • John H. Young

... clear and we set out, trailing through mud and slime six inches deep. That night we were spared the customary infliction of the shower bath. ...

— The Oregon Trail • Francis Parkman, Jr.

... Archie told us you bore the news like a hero, and now you turn pale at a whiff of bad air. I can't explain it," mused Mac as he meekly endured the fragrant shower bath. ...

— Rose in Bloom - A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" • Louisa May Alcott