bathhouse

[bath-hous, bahth-]

noun

plural

bathhouses 

1. a structure, as at the seaside, containing dressing rooms for bathers.

2. a building for bathing, sometimes equipped with swimming pools, medical baths, etc.

bathhouse

/ ˈbɑːθˌhaʊs /

noun

1. a building containing baths, esp for public use

Word History and Origins

Origin of bathhouse¹

First recorded in 1695–1705; bath ¹ + house

Example Sentences

L.A. descended into the steamy lair of Spa Palace’s pool room for Substack’s sold-out bathhouse literary reading last week, aptly titled “A Night of Desire.”

From Los Angeles Times

On May 21, the city Board of Public Works authorized hiring Perkins Eastman to do $2.4 million in architectural design and engineering work on the pools and bathhouse.

From Los Angeles Times

Even the bathrooms are opulent in that uncanny, chain-restaurant way: part suburban shopping plaza, part Ancient Egyptian bathhouse, all backlit marble and echoing tile.

From Salon

Zoé Blue M. on her paintings of women at bathhouses and how caring for her body has become a part of her practice as an artist.

From Los Angeles Times

Within a bathhouse, there are so many different rooms, with their own temperatures, made out of different things.

From Los Angeles Times