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Answer for the clue "A building containing public baths ", 9 letters:
bathhouse

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Word definitions for bathhouse in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a building containing dressing rooms for bathers [syn: bathing machine ] a building containing public baths [syn: bagnio ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
bathhouse \bathhouse\ n. a building containing dressing rooms for bathers. Syn: bathing machine. a building containing public baths. Syn: bagnio.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A building with baths for communal use. 2 A building where swimmers can change clothes.

Usage examples of bathhouse.

Crescent Bathhouse lit from within, a bauble of incandescence quickly glimpsed before the iceboat tacked sharply and raced down the frozen Tobrin toward the sea.

When he saw the people clustered under straw mats and raincoats in the downpour outside the bathhouse, he went to investigate.

The wagon rolled past the greensward of Arlington Park, the limestone-and-brick Fordyce Bathhouse, the plastered Quapaw Bathhouse with its red tile roof and mosaic dome, and the Hot Springs National Park administrative building before turning left on Reserve and stopping at the magnificent five-story towers of the Army and Navy General Hospital.

A garrison bathhouse is, of course, nowhere near as opulent as any of the thermae in any real Roman city, but even this one was furnished with pools and basins and fountains of water of varying temperatures, from icy cold to tepid to comfortably warm to near-scalding hot.

It even had a small bathhouse, where Aetius retired with a pitcher of wine and a plate of oysters, bought for a price that made him groan out loud.

The black characters on the vertical white banner out front said it was a bathhouse and that, like most bathhouses, it would open two hours later, at the hour of the Monkey.

Guild-house, and much safer than we should have been in any of the public bathhouses, some of which are run by pimps and such people.

He would make them for rich people, all over the diocese of Britain and sometimes even on the continent, for their bathhouses and living rooms and halls.

There, they drove along an interminable esplanade of trees and gardens, lined on one side by hotels the size of Pennsylvania Station, on the other by an endless stretch of cabins and bathhouses that blocked all view of the beaches.

The friendly seaside resort -- where sea baths were taken as early as 1823 -- with its low-lying fishing village and dome-surmounted casino, its medium-high dunes and scrub pine forest, with its fishing boats, its hundred and fifty feet of pier, and its tripartite bathhouse, with the watch-tower of the German Lifesaving Society, was situated exactly halfway between Neufahrwasser and Glettkau on the shores of the Gulf of Danzig.

This winter there had been enough wood for the furnaces, and for hot water in the bathhouse, unlike the first winter on the Roof of the World.

Carrying the Epsom salts and a piece of the baklava wrapped in cellophane, I came out of the house and walked along the portico past the courtyard and bathhouse to the guesthouse behind.

It seems as though, so long as I build towers, and bridges, and bathhouses, and smithies, everything is fine, but when I say.

Fortunately the laws are more sensible now, but I understand the monks are still not allowed to attend public bathhouses, nor are pious cristoforo women.

The rain had eased, but the sidewalks were still wet, and I splashed through shallow puddles as I ran the mile and a half to the bathhouse where I did the turnaround.