A lavabo is a device used to provide water for the washing of hands.

I went out to the primitive lavabo and threw cold water on my face which seemed to help.

The lavabo may be considered the forerunner of the modern sink.

It was the second single from his album Le Lavabo.

The lavabo is a reconstruction, based on a fragment of the original central basin.

This lavabo takes place quietly, outside of the view of the congregation.

There is a small, well-preserved lavabo on the southern wall of the nave.

Of the old furnishings, the lavabo and the sacramental niche are preserved.

Outside the refectory usually stood a lavabo, or large basin for hand-washing.

Beside this entrance is a richly ornamented lavabo of the Renaissance period.

On the south side of the cloister is an open octagonal structure containing a lavabo fed by a spring.

The lavabo is opposite the refectory so that the monks could cleanse their hands before meals.

By degrees the lavabo became portable, and a basin frame is mentioned as early as the middle of the 17th century.

The hall has a large blocked fireplace, a lavabo, aumbries, and what may be a buffet recess in the north wall.

He will then wash his hands again after the Offertory-this is the ceremony that is known as the lavabo proper.

Here follow a Prayer for Peace, a second Lavabo and a censing.

Above this was a main room with fireplace, deep windows with seats, and a carved lavabo or piscina.

It is said that when the cloister was part of a Benedictine abbey, the monks used this fountain as their lavabo.

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

Towels are used to dry the hands after lavabo, though their design and use are not as fixed as formerly in the West.

The silent Lavabo just before the Consecration.

Lamps cost about $125, lidded urns $165, large platters around $80 and a bathroom lavabo from $125.

Lavabo: A server administers the water to the Priest as he ritually washes his hands.

A lavabo, or washing fountain, stands in the cloister in front of what had been the entrance to the refectory.

One, which served as the sacristy, contains the 18th century lavabo, or washing basin, and the other protected the charters of the Abbey.