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Toilet room

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A room in which to perform one's toilet, including dressing and grooming, particularly before execution. historical

    "We first enter a set of apartments, that are fitted up as toilette-rooms for the ladies."

  2. 2
    A room in which to use a toilet: a lavatory.

    "The other apartments are for toilet rooms for both sexes, on first and second floors."

Etymology

Originally from French chambre or cabinet de toilette, used for private grooming areas and then euphemistically for the locations of chamber pots and the plumbing fixtures which took their name from the room. Now generally understood as a direct (even impolitely overly direct) reference to the fixtures.

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