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turkish bath
A communal bathing facility with a sequence of rooms for stages of heating, washing, sweating, or cooling.
A Turkish bath is a series of communal bathing rooms, providing a sequence of spaces for alternating stages of bathing. Normally beginning with a room filled with hot dry air, bathers progress to further rooms for additional sweating, cooling off, or bathing in steamy water.
The sequence of bathing spaces distinguishes the facility from a single bath or shower room. Different rooms support successive stages of the visit.
Hot-air, water, and cooling spaces can be combined within the facility. The definition concerns the arranged bathing sequence rather than an ordinary swimming pool.