What is "latrines"

Usage examples of "latrines".

Tiber rose just enough to ensure that some of the public latrines backfilled and floated excrement out of their doors, a vegetable shortage developed when the Campus Martius and the Campus Vaticanus were covered with a few inches of water, and shoddily built high-rise insulae began to crumble into total collapse or suddenly manifested huge cracks in walls and foundations.

Officer Delinko noticed that three portable latrines were strapped on the back of the flatbed truck.

I had never been in a military post before and my chief recollection of it is the open latrines, with African soldiers squatting and jabbering, dung-brown beetles crawling in human excrement, and the wood smoke smell of cook fires hanging in the still air.