necessary house

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词形变化

necessary houses 复数 necessary houses

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An outhouse: an outbuilding used for the "necessary" business of urination and defecation.

    委婉 废旧

    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.

词源

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

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