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n. a communal bathhouse in Islamic countries.
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The hammam of the Red Fort in Delhi was the location of the baths of the Mughal emperor. It is located in the north of the Diwan-i-Khas.
The marble hammam is a bath that forms a part of the palace building. It consists of three apartments separated by corridors and crowned with domes. The apartments are illuminated by a colored glass skylight.
The two rooms to either side of the present entrance are believed to have been used by the royal children for bathing. The eastern apartment, containing three fountain basins, was used primarily as a dressing room. In the center of each room stood a fountain, and one of the rooms contained a marble reservoir built into the wall. As legend goes, perfumed rose-water once ran from the taps. The western apartment was used for hot or vapor baths, and the heating arrangement was being fixed in its western wall.
The whole interior was richly decorated with colorful inlaid pietra dura floral designs made of white marble. The floors and dados of these apartments are finished with white marble as well.
Usage examples of "hammam".
My khane has clean beds, and a hammam for your refreshment, and the best food in Akko.
And the hammam, I think, must rank with those other great Arabian inventions: arithmetic and its numbers and the abaco for counting.
Essentially a hammam is only a room full of steam, generated by throwing water on fire-hot stones.
We had to return to the palace, to visit its hammam and get thoroughly clean before donning our best clothes for the evening meal.
So again we had the thorough cleansing and refreshment of a hammam, an elegantly appointed one this time, in which our three young men served as our rubbers.
But it proved to be a vigorous rubbing and pummeling and kneading of my entire body, more energetically done than the hammam rubbing, and with the intent not of extruding dirt from the skin, but of exercising every part in a manner to make one feel even healthier and more invigorated than a hammam bath can do.
Though at first we exulted in the refreshment of a hammam bath and rubbing, and were pleased to have our meals cooked and presented to us by servants, we soon found ourselves vexed by the noise and agitation and turmoil of indoor living.
The landlord would not squander precious dried-dung fuel on anything like a hammam or hot water for washing clothes.
In our bathing chamber, which was as big and as well-equipped as a Persian hammam, the maid helped Hui-sheng and me, together, to bathe several times over, until we felt clean of our encrustation of jungle, and then helped us dress.
With this darkness came a faint moaning of hollow wind from the desert, a lamentable murmur that shuddered over the great spaces, crept among the palms and the flatroofed houses, and died away at the foot of the brown mountains beyond the Hammam Salahine.
She must have visited the hammam, as she had planned, for the bright tresses fell across her shoulder in a shining silken torrent.
A few more hours of sleep should give me the energy to go to the hammam, after which I can sleep some more.
She almost shook him near the large hammam, or bathhouse, on the Street of Tentmakers.
It had been such a treat to sit in hot water at the hammam twice that day, scrubbing until she glowed a golden peach color, feeling her hair really clean.
At some point she had visited a hammam, bathed, and dressed in a clean habit from her saddlebags.