Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "wash-stand".
Your own stateroom as you enter it from time to time is an ever-new surprise of splendors, a magnificent effect of amplitude, of mahogany bedstead, of lace curtains, and of marble topped wash-stand.
The rooms were as small as cabins, whitewashed, and of cabinlike simplicity, with an iron bed, a wash-stand, a chair, a few hooks on which to hang clothes, and bright cretonne curtains.
He then donned his waistcoat, and taking up a piece of hard soap on the wash-stand centre-table, dipped it into water and commenced lathering his face.