Crossword clues for washstand
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Washstand \Wash"stand`\, n. A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A table containing a basin and a pitcher of water for washing 2 (cx dated English) In a stable or garage, a place in the floor prepared so that carriages or automobiles may be washed there and the water run off.
WordNet
n. furniture consisting of a table or stand to hold a basin and pitcher of water for washing: `wash-hand stand' is a British term [syn: wash-hand stand]
a bathroom or lavatory sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you wash your hands and face; "he ran some water in the basin and splashed it on his face" [syn: washbasin, basin, washbowl, lavatory]
Wikipedia
A washstand or basin stand is a piece of furniture consisting of a small table or cabinet, usually supported on three or four legs, and most commonly made of mahogany, walnut, or rosewood, and made for holding a wash basin and water pitcher. The smaller varieties were used for rose-water ablutions, or for hair-powdering. The larger ones, which possessed receptacles for soap-dishes, were the predecessors of the modern bathroom wash basin, or sink. Both varieties, often of very elegant form, were in extensive use throughout a large part of the 18th century and early-19th century, eventually disappearing with the advent of modern indoor plumbing.
Usage examples of "washstand".
Sin unlaced the sleeves of his aketon as he headed toward the washstand.
The furnishings, too, were all gilded and begemmed, bed and chairs and benches, wardrobes and chests and washstand.
While Bulen gave his boots a much-needed blacking, Lan washed himself from head to toe at the washstand rather than waiting for a bathtub to be brought, and dabbed an ointment that Anya sent Esne for onto his welts, but he let the women dress him.
The one that was a bedroom had gay Navajo blankets on the floor, and a stove in it, and a little bureau, and a washstand with white towels and good lathery soap.
The others were awake: Peterson lacing up his boots, McCloy shaving by flashlight at the makeshift washstand outside, Lemmon wiping the dampness from his carbine, Tester doing the same to his rare and precious SK-50, a submachine gun he had acquired because his pistol seemed an inadequate means of self-defense.
Papa sent him back out to the hall washstand to rewash his gritty hands.
Up at dawn while Henry still lay snoring, throw on his clothes in the unheated room, splash his face with water from the pitcher on the washstand, a hasty shave, a swift bicycle ride to the orphanage, half an hour with Precious, another hurried ride to 75A Parnell Street, where Sile was waiting for him.
Elaira braced against the washstand, too wrung with dread to question the price she might pay for unbending self-honesty.
All I could do was to shut and bolt the open connecting door, as well as its mate on the opposite side--pushing a bedstead against the one and a bureau against the other, and moving a washstand in front of the hall door.
Two real shuttered windows, a wide desk, a wooden armchair with cushions, a full-size bed with cotton sheets and a red woolen blanket-even a rug by the bed, a washstand, a white oak wardrobe for his garments, and a bookcase against the wall beside the desk.
The chamber was furnished with ascetic simplicity: a mat over a bare stone floor, a washstand, and a terminal with holo vitrine displaying a changing mandala.
A bed, a washstand, and a clothespress filled most of the available floor space.
While Condy was interviewing the old fellow, Travis was examining, with the interest of a child, the details of the cabin: the racklike bunk, the washstand, ingeniously constructed so as to shut into the bulkhead when not in use, the alarm-clock screwed to the wall, and the array of photographs thrust into the mirror between frame and glass.
Lathering his face, he looked at his reflection in the mirror of the ornate fruitwood washstand.
A washstand completed the furnishings, except for a three-legged stool, onto which Katerine promptly lowered herself, adjusting her skirts as though on a throne.