air-bath

English

Noun

air-bath (plural air-baths)

1. Alternative form of air bath
   • 1895, Henry James, The Middle Years:

     It amused poor Dencombe, as he dawdled in his tepid air-bath, to think that he was waiting for a revelation of something at the back of a fine young mind.

   • 2010, Thorsten Teutenberg, High-temperature Liquid Chromatography:

     The chapter is then closed with a critical comparison between air-bath, water-jacket and contact heating ovens.

   • 2012, Captain Theodore Canot, Adventures of an African Slaver:

     Hardly were the words out of my mouth when his lordship leaped from the bed, and in the scantiest drapery imaginable, seized me by the collar, inflicting such a shaking as I would willingly have exchanged for a tertian ague from the Pontine marshes. The sudden air-bath probably cooled his choler, for, in a few moments, we found ourselves in a pacific explanation about the luckles pencil..

   • 2013, J. P. Muller, My Sun-Bathing and Fresh-Air System:

     If one is forced to take one's sun and air-bath in the bedroom, the brightest room in the house should be chosen for sleeping in, instead of being reserved for a drawing-room; and, above all things, away with curtains and hangings.