large containers that you fill with water for bathing your whole body in.
From Old English bæth (bath) combined with tub, which comes from Middle Dutch tubbe. Bathtubs as we know them are a Victorian invention, though Romans had their famous public baths centuries earlier.
The Victorian bathtub was revolutionary—having hot running water inside your own home was a huge sign of wealth and modernity, so bathtubs became status symbols in a way that sounds wild to us now.
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