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lavatorium

noun

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin lavātōrium. Doublet of lavatory and laver.

  1. borrowed from lavātōrium

Definitions

  1. A washroom or -place.

    • [T]he attendant returned and invited her to go to the lavatorium. Here the Japanese girls were waiting, and they at once took possession of Esther; and placing her beneath a refreshing spray of luke-warm water, they began to massage her.

  2. A lavatory.

    • A visit to the toilet proves embarrassing. Luke directs me to ‘the lavatorium’, a room with a long wooden bench that has four seats with holes the size of dinner plates.
    • Before the dorm, we endured an equally enlightening and embarrassing hour and a half in the lavatorium, as they called it. All us boys were schooled in using the space-toilets, taking a space-shower, and brushing your space-teeth.

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