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/lˈævətˌɔri/ Listen

noun

Lavatory n. (pl. lavatories)

A place for washing.

A basin or other vessel for washing in.

A wash or lotion for a diseased part.

A place where gold is obtained by washing.

A room containing one or more sinks for washing, as well as one or more toilet fixtures; also called bathroom, toilet, and sometimes commode. Commode and toilet may refer to a room with only a toilet fixture, but without a sink.

Synonyms: toilet, lavatory, can, facility, john, privy, bathroom.

adjective

Lavatory adj. Washing, or cleansing by washing.

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Etymology of 'Lavatory'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lavatory" Quotes from Famous Books

... began investigating what had been put on the market to meet her requirements. At present we are living on the threshing floor mostly, and the whole house is packed up; when it is unpacked, there'll be a bathroom on the second floor, and a lavatory on the first. There'll be a furnace in one room of the basement, and a coal bin big enough for a winter's supply. We can hitch on to the trolley line for electric lights all over the house, and barn, and outbuildings, ...

— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter

... much," she said coldly and returned to the station. In the small lavatory of the depot waiting room she exchanged her slippers for a pair of moderately low-heeled shoes which she had at the last minute of packing tucked into her suitcase, put a few extra articles into her rather smart traveling bag, left the suitcase in the telegraph office ...

— The Quirt • B.M. Bower

... than two minutes, I think, I had scrambled into my shirt and trousers; and, throwing my other garments over my arm in imitation of Tom, I was racing along with him down to the lavatory in the lower regions where our ablutions had to be performed. Thence, there was another mad rush up-stairs again to the refectory, which we reached before the second gong, calling us to the matutinal ...

— On Board the Esmeralda - Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story • John Conroy Hutcheson

... on the hall of chimney pieces in the Palais de Justice, in Paris. There is Noah's adventure carved to the last detail, as under the great portal of Bourges. There is a bacchanalian monk, with ass's ears and glass in hand, laughing in the face of a whole community, as on the lavatory of the Abbey of Bocherville. There exists at that epoch, for thought written in stone, a privilege exactly comparable to our present liberty of the press. It is ...

— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo

... hour, schedule time; but it is fast enough, the outlook upon sea and land is so interesting, and the cars so comfortable. They are not English, and not American; they are the Swiss combination of the two. A narrow and railed porch along the side, where a person can walk up and down. A lavatory in each car. This is progress; this is nineteenth-century spirit. In New Zealand, these fast expresses run twice a week. It is well to know this if you want to be a bird and fly through the country at a 20-mile ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

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