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Privy house

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An outhouse: an outbuilding used for urination and defecation.

    "I wil that ye newe prevy hous ovir the synkke be the dore... serve for the parlour and chambir a loffte."

Etymology

From privy (“outhouse”) to clarify the intended sense, likely under the influence of Anglo-Norman privé hostel (attested in an 1139 British source) and Latin domus privata (1141).

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