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- noun Plural form of
laystall .
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Examples
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'That the laystalls be removed as far as may be out of the city and common passages, and that no nightman or other be suffered to empty a vault into any garden near about the city.
A Journal Of The Plague Year Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 1935
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You might as well praise the "straightforwardness" of a man who goes out of his way to explore laystalls and, having picked up ordure, holds it up to public view.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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This street, which is still found in Clerkenwell, was of course named from one of the laystalls or public middens which were a feature of London when sanitation was in its infancy.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805
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'That the laystalls be removed as far as may be out of the city and common passages, and that no nightman or other be suffered to empty a vault into any garden near about the city.
A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London Daniel Defoe 1696
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