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I read in How to hide your bodily odors after a long flight? that you can take a 'sparrow bath' to freshen in an airport bathroom when traveling.

How do you take the sparrow bath?

How do you freshen yourself?

What does it constitute?

Details please. I tried searching both on the web and Wikipedia and got nowhere about it. Please share/explain the procedure.

I am trying to figure out an exact procedure while the other question is related to more generic ideas. While the idea was shared therein, it wasn't explained there at all. Even now, we have just mere speculation of what the term might mean, so its inconclusive.

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Here is a video of a sparrow taking a bath. As you can see, it's basically splashing water from the basin over your face - which as a human, it may be worth extending to splashing over parts of your body, but is basically just slang for a quick 'freshen up'.

To clarify, to freshen up - that is, wipe off some sweat, rub dust off your body - kind of like a wash by hand without removing your clothes (although you might also change clothes separately in a cubicle, you wouldn't do this by the basin in the bathroom).

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