Shower
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A shower is a place in which a person bathes under a spray of typically warm or hot water. Indoors, there is a drain in the floor. Most showers are set up to have adjustable temperature, spray pressur
A man taking a shower
A typical stall shower with height-adjustable nozzle and folding doors
A combination shower and bathtub, with movable screen
Illustration of showers from Traité sur l'aliénation mentale et sur les hospices des aliénés (Treatise on insanity and on the hospices of the insane) by Joseph Guislain (1826). At the time, it was thought cold water showers could alleviate mental illness
Bathing
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Bathing is the immersion of the body, wholly or partially, usually in water, but often in another medium such as hot air. It is most commonly practised as part of personal cleansing, and less frequent
Shower
…A shower is a place in which a person bathes under a spray of typically warm or hot water. Indoors, there is a drain in the floor. Most showers are set up to have adjustable temperature, spray…
Detail of Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine's Bath in the Park (1785)
Astronaut Jack R. Lousma taking a shower in space, 1973
A woman preparing to bathe
Three young women bathing. Side B from an ancient Greek Attic red-figure stamnos