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- noun Alternative form of
close-stool .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The necessity of order, a place for everything and everything in its place: the deficient appreciation of literature possessed by females: the incongruity of an apple incuneated in a tumbler and of an umbrella inclined in a closestool: the insecurity of hiding any secret document behind, beneath or between the pages of a book.
Ulysses 2003
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A closestool was in the corner along with a jar of clean water and a towel.
Tempted by Your Touch JEN HOLLING 2002
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A closestool was in the corner along with a jar of clean water and a towel.
Tempted by Your Touch JEN HOLLING 2002
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The rushes were dark with age and filth, and Caroline was quite certain a rat rustled about behind the screen hiding the closestool.
Tempted by Your Touch JEN HOLLING 2002
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The rushes were dark with age and filth, and Caroline was quite certain a rat rustled about behind the screen hiding the closestool.
Tempted by Your Touch JEN HOLLING 2002
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A closestool was in the corner along with a jar of clean water and a towel.
Tempted by Your Touch JEN HOLLING 2002
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The rushes were dark with age and filth, and Caroline was quite certain a rat rustled about behind the screen hiding the closestool.
Tempted by Your Touch JEN HOLLING 2002
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The rushes were dark with age and filth, and Caroline was quite certain a rat rustled about behind the screen hiding the closestool.
Tempted by Your Touch JEN HOLLING 2002
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A closestool was in the corner along with a jar of clean water and a towel.
Tempted by Your Touch JEN HOLLING 2002
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The necessity of order, a place for everything and everything in its place: the deficient appreciation of literature possessed by females: the incongruity of an apple incuneated in a tumbler and of an umbrella inclined in a closestool: the insecurity of hiding any secret document behind, beneath or between the pages of a book.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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