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Shaving basins

Scope note

Shallow basins with the center of one side cut out in a semicircle so that they could be held close against a person's neck while being shaved by a barber. DDA2

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000227367

Equivalent Terms used

shaving basin

Created

13yrs ago

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