strigil
/ˈstrɪdʒ.ɪl/
noun
- A curved metal tool used in ancient Greece and Rome to scrape dirt and sweat from the skin after exercise or bathing.
- The museum displayed a bronze strigil that once belonged to a Greek soldier.
- In ancient Rome, athletes used a strigil to clean their skin after wrestling.
- After a workout at the gymnasium, a slave would help scrape off oil and dirt with a strigil.
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