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n. (context chiefly British English) a flush toilet, or the room, in a public place, containing one
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Usage examples of "water closet".
The tub had claw and ball feet, and the water closet had a pull chain from the storage tank mounted up by the ceiling.
Past the galley, a door stands open to a water closet on the right, which is separate from the rest of the bathroom.
More than nausea, however, the video inspired such pity for the real dead and dying people shown on screen that after viewing but three or four minutes of it, she'd taken refuge in the water closet, muffling her sobs in her hands.
The simple two-story frame house at 92 Second Street was furnished with a water closet in the basement and slop pails in the bedrooms, which had to be emptied every morning.
He could think of no water closet in the mansion that could be reached without going through a bathroom with mirrors.
I escorted her past the water closet into her chamber, appointed at least as handsomely as mine.
He also knew that there was only a single water closet on the ground floor, so that during the evening guests in need would have occasion to traipse upstairs in search of another.
I could see part of the tub and part of the water closet in the bathroom.
Parker dropped the four guns in a water closet and went back outside.
She took care not to flush the toilet, a massive water closet that must have been the latest in sanitation technology when it was installed at the turn of the century but which roared its presence throughout the house when the chain loosed its eight-gallon tank of water.
For his part, Bazie pretty much took care of his own needs, requiring only to be carried to and from the water closet.
He handed them the note which he had found bobbing about in its plastic bottle in the water closet of his facility.
They'll put it all together, my tipping the cop, my finding notes in the water closet of my toilet.
A few minutes later, going back to the kitchen-utility room to take his turn with the water closet, Jerry observed Sam, who was bedded down wrapped in a blanket on the floor beside the cookstove.
Her mother would laugh so hard she'd have to waddle to the water closet.