powder room
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.22 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A room used to store gunpowder, particularly (historical) on a ship equipped with cannon.
Example Sentences
- "If you'll excuse me, I need to visit the powder room to see a man about a dog."
- "They are the authors of the small powder room in the Hofbrau House at Broadway and Fifty-third Street, New York, a very modern creation."
- "There are separate lavatories for ladies and gentlemen in each coach and the provision of a special powder room for ladies in the first class is an entirely new feature."
- "Whispers in the powder room / She cries on every tune"
- "The house — four stories high and 22 feet wide — has five bedrooms, three full bathrooms and a powder room, along with three fireplaces and a finished basement with a gym and laundry."
- "Are you insane? Don't take a candle into the powder room!"