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draught-house

noun

Etymology

From draught + house.

  1. inherited from husen
  2. derived from *(s)kews-✻
  3. inherited from *hūsą✻ — “house”
  4. inherited from *hūs✻
  5. inherited from hūs — “dwelling, shelter, house”
  6. inherited from hous
  7. compounded as draught-house — “draught + house”

Definitions

  1. An outhouse

    An outhouse; an outbuilding used as a lavatory.

    • They... brake downe the house of Baal, and made it a draught-house.
    • Moslems and Hindus [...] abhor the unclean and unhealthy use of paper without ablution; and the people of India call European draught-houses, by way of opprobrium, "Kághaz-khánah" = paper closets.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA