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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 290 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LAVABO (
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Lat. " I will
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wash "; the Fr.
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equivalent is laz'oir)  , in ecclesiastical usage, the
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term for the washing of the priests' hands, at the celebration of the
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Mass, at the
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offertory . The words of
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Psalm
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xxvi . 6,
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Lavabo inter innocentes manus meas, are said during the rite . The word is also used for the
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basin employed in the
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ritual washing, and also for the lavatories, generally erected in the cloisters of monasteries . Those at
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Gloucester,
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Norwich and
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Lincoln are best known . A very curious example at Fontenay, surrounding a
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pillar, is given by
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Viollet-le-Duc . In
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general the lavabo is a sort of trough; in some places it has an
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almery for towels, &c .

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