A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 424
ii.fcrtiki^gi:-,SC Lavatory in the Cloister of the Church of8. Alexis, Rome. The decoration in mosaic is of tlie general character of Cosmatiwork. LAVATOIRE. Formerly, in an ecclesiasti-cal establishment, a trough or bath for washingthe bodies of tlie dead. The usual form ap-pears to have been that… … Lavatory in the Abbey of S. Denis ; now in the fit ole des Beaux Arts, Paris.The water spirted from the sj)outs between the heads. ture, either portaLle or stationaiy, intended torwashing. B. lu modern plumbing work, a sefwash-ba.sin. (See Basin; Lavatoire ; Lavoir.) — W. P. G. LAVER, AUGUSTUS.…
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