bathhouse
- n a building containing dressing rooms for bathers
- n a building containing public baths
- The bathhouse, which welcomes tired ghosts from the far reaches of the spirit world, is run by Yubaba, a wicked queen with a huge head; she seems inspired by Tenniel's drawings .
- The day after his election, he showed up at a public bathhouse in Seoul, saying that his house didn't have hot water.
- Spirited Away, Miyazaki's masterpiece, is set in a spectral bathhouse.