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Necessary house

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An outhouse: an outbuilding used for the "necessary" business of urination and defecation. euphemistic, obsolete

    "I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments."

Etymology

Likely formed under influence from necessarium (“monastic latrine, outhouse, or lavatory”) and necessary (“outhouse; lavatory”).

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