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earth bath

earth bath noun: a mud bath.

Noun (1)

earth bath (plural earth baths)

  1. A mud bath.
  2. (historical) A bath or therapeutic treatment in which the body is buried or immersed in earth, as practiced in James Graham’s 18th-century "earth-bathing" therapy.

Noun (2) capitalized: Earth Bath

Earth Bath (uncountable)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of earth bath.

Noun (3) capitalized: Earth bath

Earth Bath (plural Earth baths)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of earth bath.

Forms of earth bath

pluralearth baths
alternative formearthbath
alternative formEarth bath
pluralEarth baths

Origin of earth bath

Sense 2: from earth + bathing. Widely understood to have been coined Scottish physician James Graham in the late 1780s or early 1790s. * Possibly coined earlier by Gerard van Swieten in 1765 in references to practices found in the Kingdom of Granada (writing "per balneum terrae," Latin for "bath of earth").

Questions about earth bath

What does earth bath mean?
Earth bath means a mud bath.
What part of speech is earth bath?
Earth bath is a noun.
What is the plural of earth bath?
The plural of earth bath is earth baths.

Words near earth bath in the dictionary

  1. earth apple
  2. earth apples
  3. earth art
  4. earth ball
  5. earth balls
  6. earth bath
  7. earth bathing
  8. earth baths
  9. earth chestnut
  10. earth chestnuts
  11. earth closet

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