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  • noun Plural form of steambath.

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Examples

  • Peculiar lusts are supposed to be a male prerogative (well, look at me), but the truth is we ain't in it with the likes of the Empress Tzu-hsi or Lola of the Hairbrush or that Russian aunt I knew who went in for flogging in steambaths ... or Miranda Spring, not yet of age, smiling brightly to cover a little yawn.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • The doors open, and I step into a kind of heat that I would imagine a Russian man pays big dollars for at Moscow's famous gay steambaths.

    Out of Steam, I Riseth Michelle Collins 2005

  • Peculiar lusts are supposed to be a male prerogative (well, look at me), but the truth is we ain't in it with the likes of the Empress Tzu-hsi or Lola of the Hairbrush or that Russian aunt I knew who went in for flogging in steambaths ... or Miranda Spring, not yet of age, smiling brightly to cover a little yawn.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • Peculiar lusts are supposed to be a male prerogative (well, look at me), but the truth is we ain't in it with the likes of the Empress Tzu-hsi or Lola of the Hairbrush or that Russian aunt I knew who went in for flogging in steambaths … or Miranda Spring, not yet of age, smiling brightly to cover a little yawn.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • He got her Out of there, eased her off the dope with steambaths and vitamin B-12 shots, then ditched her to fight for Uncle Sam.

    Hollywood Nocturne Ellroy, James 1994

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