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  • Those who tried to ridicule our Christian identity by dressing up as Christ or the Appostles and those who transformed Nadur into a public 'latrina' were totally disrespectful towards others, and these should be brought to justice!

    timesofmalta.com 2009

  • Since when is it ok for nadur to be turned into a 'latrina'.

    timesofmalta.com 2009

  • The northwest corner room may have housed the original latrina, or public toilet, of the complex, whereas the room to the south probably became a latrina only after the catastrophe of A.D.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 2 2003

  • Five years ago this gutter could be entered from the large latrina (public lavatory) in the ground floor of the bath complex and mapped and followed over a distance of 124 meters.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Lower Agora Report 3 2003

  • His writing is so distinct that I am certain I have got every letter right, but I do not recognize his second English word for latrina, it is probably some corrupt form of lavatory.

    Diversions in Sicily Henry Festing Jones 1889

  • Moslems, armed with pickaxes and shovels, rased it to the ground, having first taken the Cross and Gospels and thrown them into a latrina.

    Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. Andrew Archibald Paton 1842

  • This little suit was "planned". maybe Obama can get another Lilly Bedwetter Act courtesy of a wise latrina.

    Latest Articles 2009

  • Malta qeghda fil-konfini esterni tan-naha t'isfel ta 'l-Ewropa, ghalhekk noqoghdu attenti li ma' nsirux il-latrina tal-pajjizi Ewropej.

    timesofmalta.com 2009

  • Four years of Latin, and two of Spanish, are required at the new high school, where Latin phrases adorn the walls and words like discipuli (students), magistri (teachers) and latrina

    EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL 2008

  • Six hundred years ago, toilet designs, though crude, were what we might term today latrines (the Middle English word was laterin from Latin latrina): planks of wood with circles cut into them, placed over a ditch.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4 1993

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