lavatory

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  1. noun A room equipped with washing and often toilet facilities; a bathroom.
  2. noun A washbowl or basin, especially one permanently installed with running water.
  3. noun A flush toilet.

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  • My first glimpse of this change had brought tears of surprise to my eyes in the train lavatory, as if someone had wounded me; the smudge on my sensible cotton underpants looked like the thumbprint of a murderer. —  The Historian
  • He goes through towards the lavatory, which is reached from the stairs. —  Murder Must Advertise
  • There is a limit to the amount of time the male body can go without a lavatory, and we none of us wanted to go alone. —  XXXX
  • Susannah stared around the blue and white lavatory, at the embroidered hand towels and sculpted soap. —  F ;SF - vol 089 issue 02 - August 1995
  • As she yanked her stretch pants down and hunkered over the toilet seat to pee, she noticed how much the lavatory was like marriage. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#215
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  1. Middle English, piscina, from Late Latin lavātōrium, from lavātor, launderer, from Latin lavāre, to wash; see leu(ə)- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. I. a. from Latin as if *lavatorius, adjective, from Late Latin lavator. a clothes-washer, from lavare, past participle lavatus, wash: see lave. II. n. from Middle English lavatory = French lavatoire = Spanish Portuguese lavatorio = Italian lavatojo, from Late Latin lavatorium, a place for bathing, neuter of *lavatorius: see I.
 

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