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washhand table

washhand table noun: a freestanding item of furniture with an internal water supply meant for washing one's hands.

Noun

washhand table (plural washhand tables)

  1. (dated) A freestanding item of furniture with an internal water supply meant for washing one's hands.
    • Do.’s Dressing-room. / 2 Mahogany wardrobes / 1 Washhand table (marble top)1821 June 4, A. Darling, “Inventory of furniture”, in Norwood Young, Napoleon in Exile: St. Helena (1815-1821), London: Stanley Paul & Co., published 1915, page 342
    • I have a washhand table covered with a slab of slate, 3 ft. 4 in. long, and 20 in. wide, by three fourths of an inch thick, which slab cost only 3s. 6d.1833 October, William Rose, “On the Use of Slate and Cast Iron in Household Furniture”, in J. C. Loudon, editor, The Architectural Magazine, and Journal of Improvement in Architecture, Building, and...

Examples of washhand table in a sentence

  • Madame has provided me with a large pitcher of water, in addition to that on my washhand table, and a pancheon, or terrine as it is here called, of brown ware, which I use as a bath.1865, Mary Eyre, A Lady’s Walks in the South of France in 1863, London: Richard Bentley, […], page 112:
  • Again, take such a jug as he would manufacture for the washhand table of a garret.1865, Llewellynn Jewitt, The Wedgwoods: Being a Life of Josiah Wedgwood; with Notices of His Works and Their Productions, Memoirs of the...

Forms of washhand table

pluralwashhand tables
alternative formwash-hand table

Questions about washhand table

What does washhand table mean?
Washhand table means a freestanding item of furniture with an internal water supply meant for washing one's hands.
How do you use washhand table in a sentence?
Madame has provided me with a large pitcher of water, in addition to that on my washhand table, and a pancheon, or terrine as it is here called, of brown ware, which I use as a bath.
What part of speech is washhand table?
Washhand table is a noun.
What is the plural of washhand table?
The plural of washhand table is washhand tables.

Words near washhand table in the dictionary

  1. Washford
  2. Washford Pyne
  3. washhand
  4. washhand stand
  5. washhand stands
  6. washhand table
  7. washhand tables
  8. washhand-basin
  9. washhand-basins
  10. washhand-stand
  11. washhand-stands

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