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‖ lavabo|ləˈveɪbəʊ; also (senses 2 b, c) ˈlævəbəʊ|
[L. lavābo, 1st pers. sing. fut. tense of lavāre to wash.]
1. Eccl.
a. The ritual washing of the celebrant's hands at the offertory, accompanied in the Roman rite by the saying of Ps. xxvi. 6, beginning Lavabo inter innocentes manus meas.
b. The small towel used to wipe the priest's hands.
c. The basin used for the washing.
1858Direct. Angl. Gloss. 232 Lavabo, the secreta oratio of the Priest when water is poured on his fingers before the Prayer of Oblation. [An incorrect explanation.] 1870Rock Text. Fabr. i. 203 These small liturgical towels got..the name of Lavabo cloths or Lavaboes. 1885Pater Marius iv. xxiii, The..pontiff, as he..moved his hands..at the Lavabo, or at the various benedictions.
2. a. A washing trough used in some mediæval monasteries.
1883Mag. of Art Dec. 47/1 We give a reproduction of..one aspect of the lavabo, or washing-trough, which gives its name to the lavatory.
b. A wash-stand.
a1902N.E.D., ‘In some mod. Dicts.’ 1911 Webster Lavabo, a wash basin with its necessary fittings, esp. one set in place and supplied with running water and a waste pipe.
c. = lavatory n. 4.
1930D. L. Sayers Strong Poison xiv. 177 The little lavabo in the passage. 1934H. Miller Tropic of Cancer 83, I find a ticket in the lavabo for a concert. 1971C. Johnston Mo 58 The subject of each was unmistakeably the same—Belchamber's lavabos. |