lavaboとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From the Christian ritual, which was traditionally accompanied in Catholicism by a recitation of Psalm 25:6 (Psalm 26:6, in the Hebrew and in most modern translations) which in Latin begins with the word lavābō (“I will wash”). The sense of "room with a toilet" developed under the influence of lavatory and lav.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ləˈveɪbəʊ/

名詞

lavabo (plural lavabos or lavaboes)

1. (Christianity) A ritual involving the washing of one's hands at a church's offertory before handling the Eucharist.

   Synonym: lavatory

2. (Christianity) The small towel used to dry the priest's hands following the ritual.
   • 1870, Daniel Rock, Textile Fabrics, page 203:

     These small liturgical towels got […] the name of Lavabo cloths or Lavaboes.

3. A washbasin, particularly (Christianity) the one in a church used in the ritual.

   Synonym: washbasin

   • 1885, Walter Horatio Peter, Marius the Epicurean, Bk. iv, Ch. xxiii:

     […] the […] pontiff, as he […] moved his hands […] at the Lavabo, or at the various benedictions […]

4. (architecture) A trough used for washing at some medieval monasteries.
5. (humorous, euphemistic) A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bathroom

   • 1930, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter XIV, in Strong Poision, page 177:

     Mr. Pond fussed out and she heard the door of the little lavabo in the passage open with a loud creak.

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