wash-hand basin
noun
another name for washbasin (def. 2)
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How to use wash-hand basin in a sentence
The word Palangana signifies a wash-hand-basin; but more especially the kind of basin used by barbers.
He observed a wash-hand basin with blood on the sides, and blood in some water.
He ran into his bedroom, and filling the wash-hand basin with cold water, plunged his head into it.
Miser Farebrother (vol 3 of 3) | Benjamin Leopold FarjeonShe was neither better bred nor wiser than you and me, though we knelt to hand her a letter or a wash-hand basin.
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. | W. M. ThackerayOn Sunday he ate voraciously, drank four glasses of grog, and threw the wash-hand basin out of window.
The Astonishing History of Troy Town | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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