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toilet room

noun

Etymology

Originally from French chambre or cabinet de toilette, used for private grooming areas and then euphemistically for the locations of chamber pots and the plumbing fixtures which took their name from the room. Now generally understood as a direct (even impolitely overly direct) reference to the fixtures.

  1. derived from chambre or cabinet de toilette

Definitions

  1. A room in which to perform one's toilet, including dressing and grooming, particularly…

    A room in which to perform one's toilet, including dressing and grooming, particularly before execution.

    • We first enter a set of apartments, that are fitted up as toilette-rooms for the ladies.
    • The wealthy official Shih Ch'ung [sc., Shi Chong]... had more than ten beautiful girls... always stand at attendance in the toilet room to help the guest ‘change clothes’.

  2. A room in which to use a toilet

    A room in which to use a toilet: a lavatory.

    • The other apartments are for toilet rooms for both sexes, on first and second floors.
    • To have at least four seat closets placed in the toilet room adjoining the assembly and at least two in the toilet room adjoining the senate.

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Derived

gentlemen's room, ladies' room, men's room, women's room, tearoom

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