washhand stand

plural washhand stands

1. alternativeAlternative form of washhand-stand.

   The sherbet was generally placed on a washhand stand in my private office. My washhand stand was in the far corner of the room, on entering, to the right front.

   1875, Proceedings of the Baroda Commission, Appointed to Inquire into the Charges Against H. Malharrow Gaekwar of Baroda of Instigating an Attempt to Poison the British Resident. Re-printed from the Times of India Verbatim Reports., Bombay: […] the Times of India Steam Press, page 33, column 1

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   Our middle class householder will have of household goods about him, carpets, mahogany chairs, tables, chests of drawers, curtained beds, washhand stands, crockeryware in abundance, and good cutleryware; and in his stock of wearing apparel, shirts, drawers, stockings, handkerchiefs, and such articles, whether seen or unseen, in comfortable plenty.

   1850, Samuel Laing, Observations on the Social and Political State of the European People in 1848 and 1849; Being the Second Series of the Notes of a Traveller, London: […] Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], page 122

   There are no baths or washhand stands, / A gum block stands outside / With bowl and bucket, where to hands / And face may be applied / A morning, noon, or evening sluice / In water from the spring, / To which soap is of little use, / ’Tis hard as anything.

   1875, Robert Bruce, The Dingoes and Other Tales, Adelaide: […] “Advertiser” and “Chronicle” Offices, page 109