Roman shower

Noun

Roman shower (plural Roman showers)

1. A shower stall that is not enclosed by a door or shower curtain.
   • She had a really wonderful suite at the Hackle Island Hotel, for she had furnished it herself and came here every year, she told her young visitors. There was a lovely big bath room with both a tub and a Roman shower.1922, Margaret Penrose, The Radio Girls on Station Island, or The Wireless from the Steam Yacht, New York: Cupples & Leon Company, page 147
   • Another standard characteristic of hotels rated three stars or lower (Turkish rating) is the “Roman shower”—essentially a showerhead on the wall and a drain in the floor.2006, Lynn A. Levine, Frommer’s Turkey, 4th edition, Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley, →ISBN, page 48
2. (slang) The act of vomiting or regurgitating on someone for sexual gratification.
   • I remembered Miranda talking about a rare Roman shower fetish, where people liked you to throw up on them.1999, Shawna Kenney, I Was a Teenage Dominatrix, Los Angeles: Retro Systems, page 112

   Synonyms:

   rainbow shower

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Roman, shower.