Thedivanwas the first room entered by bathers who would divest themselves of their clothes in dressing rooms or stalls.
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A wooden board between the mattress and a sprungdivanbase is an acceptable alternative to a sprung mattress on a slatted wooden base.
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The bather was required to pass back through the tepidarium and into thedivanin order to finish the treatment and exit the premises.
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I am doing everything possible to improve production of divans, but at the moment there is a serious shortage of covering materials.
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At the same time it was stated that no more suppression of opium divans would take place until the year 1910.
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Opium divans are absolutely abolished.
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He closed the opium divans.
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All the boudoirs of that generation were garnished with divans.
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The waiting room and attached toilets are still furnished, with superb divans, recliners bidets and washbasins, all in various stages of disrepair.
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In the same direction is the pavilion, raised recently to accommodate larger divans.
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A woman bought adivanbedstead for her daughter, a schoolgirl.
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On the advice of the doctor thedivanwas opened, when it was found to be stuffed with wood shavings such as are used for packing eggs.
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The rent paid by the farmer under the contract which expired early in 1910 was $1,452,000, to which must be added receipts fromdivanlicences, which amounted in 1909 to $1,860.
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Such meetings were known as "ayakdivan" (literally: meeting with folk).
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To complete his punishment, the city was hit by a high tax and itsdivanwas replaced by a military commission.
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