Strigil

They likewise made use of the instrument called strigil, which was a kind of flesh-brush; a custom to which Persius alludes in this line, ❋ Unknown (2004)

Here you get massaged with the thyme-infused oil and have the day’s dirt scraped off you with a curved instrument called a strigil. ❋ W. Hodding Carter (2006)

The Greeks and other mediterranean ancients, commonly cleaned themselves by rubbing with scented oils and then scraping themselves with a metal strigil, bringing off the dead skin and dirt with the oil (this is making a comeback now as a "modern" beauty method). ❋ Heather McDougal (2009)

They had a particular type of scraper (strigil) that they used to then collect all the olive oil and sweat and so on that had accumulated on their skin surface. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Yesterday we joined many other Bears at a ren fair near Cov, didn't buy much * whistles* no really, I only got a strigil, a torc bracelet, a tiny leather pouch to keep OC money in and a pair of really nice glasses which are a wedding present for N & E ... ❋ Dame_habonde (2005)

And so no doubt he would have of strigil and sistrum, if, instead of currycomb and cymbal, (which are the English names dictionaries render them by,) he could see stamped in the margin small pictures of these instruments, as they were in use amongst the ancients. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Once scraped raw and now tingling with excitement, you go to the caldarium for a sauna or steam bath trailed by slaves carrying towels, oil, and perhaps a strigil—the more scraping, the better. ❋ W. Hodding Carter (2006)

I also saw more of Marc Antony than I needed to see, but I do like that they were using the strigil. ❋ Unknown (2005)

And do you think that a state would be well ordered by a law which compelled every man to weave and wash his own coat, and make his own shoes, and his own flask and strigil, and other implements, on this principle of every one doing and performing his own, and abstaining from what is not his own? ❋ Unknown (2003)

I made a quick trip to my home, poured olive oil onto my arms and legs, used a strigil to scrape off the dirt and oil, changed into my better tunic, then made my way to the south side of the Acropolis. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Still, if any one were to define a strigil as an instrument for dipping water, he has made ❋ Unknown (2002)

I found my oil flask and strigil, selected clean clothes and went out to explore the King's baths. ❋ Davis, Lindsey (2001)

I was exhausted, yet I still rejected Pa's offer to scrape a strigil down my back. ❋ Davis, Lindsey (2001)

An abandoned bone strigil caught my eye, but I thought I had seen the same one there before. ❋ Davis, Lindsey (2001)

"Could a strigil have caused these wounds, Falco?" ❋ Davis, Lindsey (2001)

We searched the cart, then I was so demoralised I really could not face strigil ling down next to Pomponius. ❋ Davis, Lindsey (2001)