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House of office

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory. euphemistic, obsolete

    "Going down my cellar to look, I put my foot into a heap of turds, by which I find that Mr Turner’s house of office is full and comes into my cellar, which doth trouble me; but I will have it helped."

Etymology

From the mostly archaic sense of office as a "duty" or "function" and hence unmentionable "bodily functions".

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