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powder room

noun

a room containing a toilet and washing facilities for women; lavatory.
such a room provided for the use of female guests, as in a restaurant or nightclub.

powder room

First recorded in 1905–10

To reach the powder-room, which is always situated in the after-part of a vessel, was easy.

Mrs. Dunn, Mrs. Sweatt and I spent the time making cartridges in the powder room in our stocking feet.

I have searched, as you call it—that is, I have crawled through the hold as far as the powder-room.

But mutiny in a Robespierre Convention, above all,—it is like fire seen sputtering in the ship's powder-room!

In Hanover, the powder room was in the steeple, while in Quincy the "powder-closite" was in the beams of the roof.

April 25, 2024firkin

[fur-kin ]

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