toilet room

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词形变化

toilet rooms 复数

别名

toiletroom

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

    历史

    Before dawn already the executioner repairs to the prison, and signs at the office the certificate by which he vouches for the delivery of the person whom he is to behead. He then enters the so-called toilet-room, a narrow, dark chamber, whither the poor sinner, accompanied by the priest, is soon taken.

  2. 2.

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

词源

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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