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a porcelain throne where you marinate in your own warm regrets and bubbles
means a wide, open, deep-sided container for holding water or other contents, most often the kind you climb into for a bath.
from From Middle English and Middle Dutch "tubbe," a low Germanic word for a small wooden cask or vessel — the same family of stave-and-hoop containers that also gave us "tun" and "butt." Originally any squat barrel-like vessel for liquids, salted meat, or laundry; only later did the word settle into the porcelain basin you now soak in. Its deeper origin is uncertain, but it sits comfortably among the homely, hand-built words for everyday wooden ware.
- weight
- A full cast iron tub can exceed 1,000 pounds
- archimedes
- His eureka moment happened in one, allegedly naked
- clawfoot origin
- Feet copied from ancient Chinese dragon designs
- water use
- A soak guzzles roughly double a shower's water
japanese hinoki wooden bath — traditional japanese soaking tubs made from cypress wood, used for centuries in bathhouses across japan
roman thermae bathing pools — public bathing complexes in rome with hot, warm, and cold water tubs, like the baths of caracalla built 212-216 ad
icelandic hot spring tubs — geothermal outdoor bathing tubs in iceland, notably the blue lagoon near reykjavik with 37°c mineral-rich water