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la⋅va⋅bo

  [luh-vey-boh, -vah-]
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–noun, plural -boes.
1. Ecclesiastical.
a. the ritual washing of the celebrant's hands after the offertory in the Mass, accompanied in the Roman rite by the recitation of Psalm 26:6–12.
b. the passage recited.
c. the small towel or the basin used.
2. (in many medieval monasteries) a large stone basin equipped with a number of small orifices through which water flowed, used for the performance of ablutions.
3. a washbowl with a spigot-equipped water tank above, both mounted on a wall: now often used for decoration or as a planter.
Origin:
1855–60; < L lavābō: I shall wash
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la·va·bo   (lə-vā'bō, -vä'-)   
n.   pl. la·va·boes

  1. often Lavabo The ceremonial washing of the hands and recitation from the Psalms by the celebrant before the Eucharist in the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches.

  2. A washbowl that is attached to a wall and filled from a water tank fastened above.


[Latin lavābō, I shall wash (opening word of the recited portion of Psalm 26), first person future tense of lavāre, to wash; see leu(ə)- in Indo-European roots.]
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