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Roman showers

Roman showers is the plural of Roman shower.

Meaning of 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
  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.

Questions about Roman showers

What is Roman showers the plural of?
Roman showers is the plural of Roman shower.

Words near Roman showers in the dictionary

  1. Roman script
  2. Roman scripts
  3. Roman shade
  4. Roman shades
  5. Roman shower
  6. Roman showers
  7. Roman snail
  8. Roman snails
  9. Roman square capitals
  10. Roman surface
  11. Roman vitriol

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