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lavatory

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "washbasin," from Latin lavatorium "place for washing," noun use of neuter of adjective lavatorius "pertaining to washing," from lavatus, past participle of lavare "to wash" (see lave ). Sense of "washroom" is first attested 1650s; as a euphemism ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lavatory , Lav , or Lavvy may refer to: Toilet , the plumbing fixture Toilet, a room containing a toilet Public toilet Aircraft lavatory , the public toilet on an aircraft Latrine , a rudimentary toilet A lavatorium , the washing facility in a monastery ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lavatory \Lav"a*to*ry\, n.; pl. Lavatories . [L. lavatorium: cf. lavatoire. See Lave to wash, and cf. Laver .] A place for washing. A basin or other vessel for washing in. A wash or lotion for a diseased part. A place where gold is obtained by washing. ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a room equipped with toilet facilities [syn: toilet , lav , can , john , privy , bathroom ] a bathroom or lavatory sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you wash your hands and face; "he ran some water ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE outside ▪ Beyond them other streets with narrow rear alleyways and outside lavatories stretched all the way to the main road. ▪ She noticed outside lavatories on the first landing - thank goodness she didn't have ...

Usage examples of lavatory.

I happen to remember because it was just two year before that a strain of human aftosa developed in a Bolivian lavatory got loose through the medium of a Chinchilla coat fixed an income tax case in Kansas City.

Sarah Woolf pasted on the inside of the door of my mind, so that whenever I yanked it open, to think of anything - afternoon television, smoking a cigarette in the lavatory at the end of the ward, scratching an itchy toe - there she was, smiling and scowling at me simultaneously?

In the other leg of the L, besides the armchair, were more books, a heavy concertina blind sealing off the window, two narrow doors that I supposed were those of a closet and a lavatory, and what looked like a slightly scaled-down and windowless telephone booth until I guessed it must be an orgone box of the sort Reich had invented to restore the libido when the patient occupies it.

The lights, detecting movement, flooded the lavatory, shining brilliantly on the white tiles, sialon fixtures, and mirrors.

With the loss of Tilbury sewage works, a quarter of a million residents in the Thurrock area are left without lavatories or drinking water.

Joined the Twing family in the nineteenth century, carving posh lavatory seats for posh northern bums.

I slam the big-arsed air hostess with the mostest into the small lavatory and kiss her hard on the mouth.

They took him to what he assumed was going to be another interview room, and only when he found himself face to face with a cot, palliasse and seatless lavatory did the reality hit home.

American trains were plusher, faster and equipped with lavatories at a time when Europeans had to hope for either a strong bladder or a short trip, and her city streets were better lit at night.

It held an old bed, a couple of tattered understuffed chairs, a floor lamp, a telephone and a table lamp on a nightstand beside the bed, and a bathroom with pitted porcelain tub, cracked lavatory, and stained toilet, a single towel but no washcloth, and a hand-sized bar of Ivory soap that crackled with age when Johnson unwrapped it.

The six House lavatories, none with doors, were situated in an unheated outhouse and on a cold day in winter you could get frostbite out there if you stayed too long.

Waiting until the third pizza and its plate exploded against the door to the lavatory, he stepped back into the corridor.

In their place she pinned up a poster of a starving black child and a chart which eventually recorded a handsome donation to the Biafran famine relief fund, amassed by the girls from a summer fair, Christmas carol-singing and a sponsored fast during which Suzie Chamfer histrionically fainted in the lavatories.

The ceiling was festooned with chamber pots, lavatory seats, Victorian enema pumps, soil-glaze drainpipes, grease traps, earthenware urinals, calking tools, spanners, closet hoppers, faucets, tack moulds, basin wrenches, yarning chisels, a very old thawing steamer, bibcocks, a jerking shank and numerous blowtorches with assorted ends.

Laing had heard Helen Wilder complain that, rather than use their five high-speed elevators which carried them from a separate entrance lobby directly to the top floors, the dog-owners habitually transferred to the lower-level elevators, encouraging their pets to use them as lavatories.