re:to why the little silver bowl...is called "lavabo"

cause it is used to wash and the latin root in the word, lav means to wash? and can be found in lavage, (a medical term for washing a wound) or lavatory (a place to wash), even lavender (an aromatic, whose oil was used to wash). but what a about lavasious? or do you want to wash your hand of that?


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