body wrap

noun

: a body treatment involving the application of usually oils or gels followed by a wrapping of the body with a sheet

Examples of body wrap in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Top off the wellness leg of your visit by booking a treatment, with options from therapeutic massages to body wraps to rejuvenating facials using honey sourced from the hotel’s onsite beehives. Annie Archer, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2024 The spa is a slice of heaven, with cocoa body wraps and detoxifying coffee scrubs. Catherine Fairweather, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2024 Some stand-out spas for solo travelers in Hawaii include Nala Spa at Turtle Bay on Oahu island ingredients are incorporated into treatments, like a body wrap with Hawaiian spirulina, green mineral clay, papaya leaves, and passion fruit. Brittany Anas, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024 From rose-clay body wraps to 24-carat gold facials, these six treatments will leave you feeling and looking like a million bucks. Katie Lockhart, Robb Report, 21 Nov. 2023 Beside massage therapy, the spa offers a seaweed body wrap, a range of facials, dermaplaning, manis, and pedis. Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 29 Sep. 2023 The pui yuet also cares for the mother with massage, body wraps and lessons on how to take care of the new baby. Mayumi Maruyama, CNN, 7 May 2023 The spa offers holistic approaches with natural therapies, products, and world-class experiences through facials, purifying body wraps, scrubs, and hand and foot care. Dominique Fluker, Essence, 9 June 2023 Locally harvested ingredients like prickly pear, aloe and calendula are incorporated into skin nourishing body wrap treatments. Anna Haines, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1974, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of body wrap was in 1974

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“Body wrap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/body%20wrap. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024.

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