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lavatory

[lav-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]

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noun, plural -ries.

a room fitted with equipment for washing the hands and face and usually with flush toilet facilities.

a flush toilet; water closet.

a bowl or basin with running water for washing or bathing purposes; washbowl.

any place where washing is done.

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Origin:
1325–75; Middle English lavatorie < Late Latin lavātōrium washing-place, equivalent to Latin lavā(re) to wash + -tōrium -tory²

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a fool or simpleton; ninny.

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Example Sentences

He had nothing to do, so he went to the lavatory and washed his hands.

If an issuing bank went belly-up then, its notes would be so much lavatory paper.

Dominy to the sighting of a whites-only sign at a public lavatory.

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He had nothing to do, so he went to the lavatory and washed his hands.

If an issuing bank went belly-up then, its notes would be so much lavatory paper.

Dominy to the sighting of a whites-only sign at a public lavatory.

In hospitals, patients must bring everything, including lavatory paper.

The half bath had a lavatory so small that it could not be used.

Outside is a vast heap of litter and plastic bags used by children as a lavatory.

It was the burden of this hamper that drove his mother into guard-duty outside the lavatory door.

Manchester is in turmoil because it will be reduced to only one public lavatory.

Australia has also used similar methods to eliminate full-flow shower heads and full-size lavatory cisterns, to conserve water.

Just pages upon pages upon pages of you talking to a lavatory it's boring.

The unkempt front lawn does double duty as laundry and lavatory.

The lavatory wall is the manifesto of a counter-revolution that never comes.

People complained, and rightly so, when forced to sit near a smelly lavatory.

Many believe it is caught from lavatory seats or spread by witchcraft.

One team complained about its accommodations, having to change in the lavatory.

Women, legs crossed in discomfort or desperation, wait in line for the lavatory while men.

But for lavatory connoisseurs, there's a luxury market where the bathroom throne costs more than a.

If your kid won't stop crying, or is tantruming–as mine once did–the lavatory is a great place to.

After a series of moves, the family ends up in a ramshackle apartment that reeks from the public lavatory next door.

Crenna arrives in a jumpsuit and ducks into a lavatory to change.

Hoesch's handsome new line of men's lavatory fixtures is gadget-packed….

And air travelers are more likely to pick up these bugs by touching a lavatory doorknob or a latch on an overhead bin.

J's could be the first restaurant chain with a destiny manifestly influenced by lavatory flourishes.

Through the back door, there was a little courtyard with a small two-storey building, part of which housed the single lavatory.

She was led by the hand along a narrow hall to a tiny, filthy lavatory with a sorry little window looking out on the night.

As a result, the two lavatory doors open directly onto the galley.

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World English Dictionary

lavatory (ˈlævətərɪ, -trɪ)

—n , pl -ries
1.	toilet, water closet, Also called: WC
	a. a sanitary installation for receiving and disposing of urine and faeces, consisting of a bowl fitted with a water-flushing device and connected to a drain
	b. a room containing such an installation
2.	the washing place in a convent or monastic establishment

[C14: from Late Latin lavātōrium, from Latin lavāre to wash]

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Word Origin & History

lavatory

late 14c., "washbasin," from L. lavatorium "place for washing," noun use of neut. of adj. lavatorius "pertaining to washing," from lavatus, pp. of lavare "to wash" (see lave). Sense of "washroom" is first attested 1650s; as a euphemism for "toilet, W.C.," it is attested from 1924.

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