latrine

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My doorstep becomes a latrine, the streets are covered by filth including that of bowels and the blasphemy one hears is frightening.

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  1. noun A communal toilet of a type often used in a camp or barracks.

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  • No toilet, the families in this compound shared a single pit-latrine and no sewers or sanitation. —  Robert Neuwirth on our "shadow cities"
  • He walked past the latrine area until he came to the runs where the camp chickens were kept. —  Clavell - King Rat
  • When they reached the latrine area they paid no heed to the occupants and the occupants paid no heed to them. —  Clavell - King Rat
  • He waited until the latrine area was momentarily empty, then he slipped across the naked ground and under the wire and into the jungle. —  Clavell - King Rat
  • He had to wait another hour just outside the latrine area before he could slip under the wire. —  Clavell - King Rat
 

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  1. From French latrines, privies, from Old French, from Latin lātrīna, privy, from lavātrīna, bath, privy; see leu(ə)- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French latrine = Spanish Portuguese Italian latrina, from Latin latrina (also neuter latrinum). contr. of lavatrina, a bath, a water-closet, from lavare, wash: see lave, lotion.
 

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