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Privies

Privy \Priv"y\, n.; pl. Privies.

  1. (Law) A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished from party.
    --Burrill.
    --Wharton.

  2. A necessary house or place for performing excretory functions in private; an outhouse; a backhouse.

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privies

n. (plural of privy English)

Usage examples of "privies".

The stench was familiar, bringing to mind privies in summer camps, national parks, and Third World villages.

At least the cold kept down the smellfrom backyard privies, chicken coops, pigeon houses, pig sties.

Only in summer was this part of the day bearable, for as cold as the temple buildings were in winter, they made up for it by being pleasant in summer, and smelled of ancient incense rather than the reek of privies, of garbage, and of the muck of all of the animals hidden away in back courts.

Iriq had pushed back his chair and asked Lara to dance that I bethought myself of the Cretid fetish for privies and plumbing.

Folks went to the privies or the well, sat on the steps and smoked, or even wandered aimlessly.

After four bell, while he and Bacstair searched the row of servant privies on the north side of the castle, the ghost of a blonde girl in a laundry uniform flickered before his eyes.

By the time they reached the rows of privies behind the castle, seventeen servant girls had come along.

He has demanded more privies, of all things, better rations, even improvements for their quarters.

He slipped out back to the alley where there was a row of privies lined up like doll houses, save they were nailed together out of odds and ends and stank like open sewers.