WordNet
n. a toilet that is available to the public [syn: public toilet, comfort station, public convenience, convenience, restroom, toilet facility, wash room]
Usage examples of "public lavatory".
In public lavatory cabinets, where privacy could be bought for a penny, he had planned a long autobiographical poem in blank verse, a sort of Prelude.
Moving in hurried desperation from one cubicle to another in a public lavatory trying to find one which has a lock on the door, a seat on the bowl and no brown steaks on the seat.
He had never known such wrath before, not even during his troubled youth, yet here he was struggling to control it again as he had struggled in the public lavatory in Santa Monica.
It was a crudely phallic scrawl more likely to be found in a run-down public lavatory.
The drops grew into heavy blobs on the sidewalk leading toward the darkness of a public lavatory and the black-dark jungle of the park beyond.
The amateurishness of it made it look like something drawn on the wall of a public lavatory.
There were walls half crossing one another like the entrance to a public lavatory.
The public lavatory, she guessed, though the signs designating it as such had gone.
Around the back of the chapel and crematorium was a shabby public lavatory.
He entered a public lavatory-and there were three toughs with knives.
To relieve the tension between us, I responded to Sally's requests by stopping the car at a public lavatory about a mile and a half from where we lived, and while Isobel took her inside I took the opportunity to turn on the car radio and listen to a news bulletin.