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• n  a basin for washing the hands (`wash-hand basin' is a British expression)

• Room 39, Mademoiselle, has always been the lavabo.
• The resort already has two vast bath houses, the Washington and the Lincoln, with luxurious private rooms (bed, easy chair, tub, lavabo, toilet, curtains, rugs).
• Worst sound: the henlike cackling of women in the lavabo.

• washbasin
• handbasin
• washbowl
• wash-hand basin