| 单词 | sweat-bath |
| 释义 | > as lemmassweat-bath sweat-bath n. a steam-bath or hot-air bath, esp. among North American Indians; cf. sweat-house n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > bathing > a bath > hot air or steam bath stew1390 stovec1485 stufe1541 stow1614 furo1615 Turkish bath1644 estuary1657 steam-bath1725 Russian bath1770 stufa1832 sweat-bath1877 sauna1881 shvitz1937 1877 S. Powers Tribes Calif. xxvi. 244 [The Shasta Indians] have no assembly chamber..; nothing but a kind of oven large enough that one person may stretch himself therein and enjoy a sweat-bath. 1921 J. Hastings Encycl. Relig. XII. 128/2 When we turn to the Old World, we find a striking resemblance to the American customs in Herodotus's description of the use of the sweat-bath among the Scythians as a means of purification, after mourning. 1963 E. Waugh Let. Sept. in C. Sykes Evelyn Waugh (1975) xxvi. 439 I have sat in a ‘sweat-bath’ and been severely massaged. 1965 S. G. Lawrence 40 Years on Yukon Telegraph xiv. 75 They [sc. some Indians] stayed over a day and all the old men took sweat baths. < as lemmas |
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