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Lavatory   /lˈævətˌɔri/   Listen
Lavatory

noun
(pl. lavatories)
1.
A room or building equipped with one or more toilets.  Synonyms: bathroom, can, john, lav, privy, toilet.
2.
A bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face.  Synonyms: basin, washbasin, washbowl, washstand.
3.
A toilet that is cleaned of waste by the flow of water through it.  Synonym: flush toilet.



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"Lavatory" Quotes from Famous Books



... into dimly-lighted aisles and arches. On the painted windows he saw Interlachen, withits Franciscan cloister, and the Square Tower of the ruins. In a pendent, overhead, stood the German student, as Saint Vitus; and on a lavatory, or basin of holy-water, below, sat a cherub, with the form and features of Berkley. Then the organ-pipes began to blow, and he heard the voices of an invisible choir chanting. And anon the gilded gates in the bronze screen before the chancel opened, and a bridal procession passed through. ...
— Hyperion • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... ten days in a train, he can hardly be expected to sit cramped up all the time, he must have some space to stir about in. At night one of the seats forms one bed and another is let down crossways above it. There is, alas, no bath, but there is a small lavatory for every two compartments where we can wash after a fashion. There are even books provided in the restaurant car, some in Russian, some in French, some in German, ...
— Round the Wonderful World • G. E. Mitton

... lofty room, lighted by a single gas-jet, dependent from the ceiling. The four walls were thickly wadded, and there were no windows, only one door, no pictures, no mirror—nothing but a few stuffed chairs, a table, a lavatory, a bed. Day-time and night-time would be the ...
— The Unseen Bridgegroom - or, Wedded For a Week • May Agnes Fleming

... to sleep and forget our hunger and weariness. But all the night through our dusky comrades padded by to the lavatory, and in the streak of bright light which shot across the center of the room, startled heads could be seen bobbing up in the direction of a demented woman in the end cot. Her weird mutterings made us fearful. There was no sleep in this ...
— Jailed for Freedom • Doris Stevens

... studying the latest automobile catalogue, one feels safer to know that the superfluous water will find a ready outlet through the pipes, rather than the floors and halls. The same precautions are to be observed with the lavatory, where young America may choose to devote himself to original experiments in hydrostatics instead of performing the simple process of expeditiously removing the grime ...
— The Complete Home • Various


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