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outhouse
[ out-hous ]
noun
- an outbuilding with one or more seats and a pit serving as a toilet; privy.
- any outbuilding.
outhouse
/ ˈaʊtˌhaʊs /
noun
- a building near to, but separate from, a main building; outbuilding
- an outside lavatory
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Example Sentences
Even at 3am on a rainy night, your only toilet option is a wet and perhaps muddy walk to the outhouse.
Stein says her jail time was "like living in an outhouse in very close quarters."
In many rural Chinese homes, a jar of pesticide—often a variety banned in Western countries—sits in the family outhouse.
Perrier, to avoid these inconveniences, made an under-ground passage, by which his guest could pass to an outhouse.
A door at the side of this led to the little stone outhouse where the water for the pipes both of school and Chapel was heated.
The bath was in an outhouse about fifty yards across the yard from the ward.
But except at one corner of the roof of an outhouse, no damage had been done to the buildings—except the broken glass.
The cat had left her kittens in an outhouse before the snow began, and afterwards proposed to return to them.
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