| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | la·va·bo |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  l -v  b , -vä- |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. la·va·boes
1. often Lavabo The ceremonial washing of the hands and recitation from the Psalms by the celebrant before the Eucharist in the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches. 2. A washbowl that is attached to a wall and filled from a water tank fastened above. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin lavb, I shall wash (opening word of the recited portion of Psalm 26), first person future tense of lavre, to wash. See leu()- in Appendix I.
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