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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ablutions
noun
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▪ As with all my ablutions, the shave follows a definite and predetermined pattern.
▪ At twelve o'clock the class was dismissed, and there followed a rush for the toilets and ablutions.
▪ Hurriedly she finished her ablutions, pulled on her clothes and went to investigate.
▪ If by chance he does he purges himself by religiously prescribed ablutions.
▪ The ablutions, cookhouse and accommodation are checked for cleanliness, these jobs being a major headache in a platoon location.
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ablutions

n. 1 (plural of ablution English) 2 A building that houses bathing and toilet facilities on a military base. (From the Mid 20th century.)(R:SOED5: page=5)

Usage examples of "ablutions".

The skin of this young creature, from continual ablutions and the use of mollifying ointments, was inconceivably smooth and soft.

Channa, the ablutions system was not completely set up and the perfume mixer not installed.

She got out of bed, studiously ignoring the robot, and went into the ablutions unit.

She hurried through her ablutions and ordered a sustabar for breakfast.

She went into the ablutions area and took a shower, trying to ignore the thing, which continued to watch her, or she presumed it was watching her, through its unblinking golden eye-slit.

Just imagine wasting all this space on an ablutions unit for one person.

One wall of the ablutions area changed miraculously into a mirror and she saw them both reflected in it.

He had already dressed and performed his ablutions, and his white hair was combed back with a small pin holding it in place, forming the little scholar's knot, a meritocratic style he had shunned until now.