toilet room
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.27 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "We first enter a set of apartments, that are fitted up as toilette-rooms for the ladies."
- "Before dawn already the executioner repairs to the prison, and signs at the office the certificate by which he vouches for the delivery of the person whom he is to behead. He then enters the so-called toilet-room, a narrow, dark chamber, whither the poor sinner, accompanied by the priest, is soon taken."
- "The wealthy official Shih Ch'ung [sc., Shi Chong]... had more than ten beautiful girls... always stand at attendance in the toilet room to help the guest ‘change clothes’."
- "The other apartments are for toilet rooms for both sexes, on first and second floors."
- "To have at least four seat closets placed in the toilet room adjoining the assembly and at least two in the toilet room adjoining the senate."
Etymology
Originally from French chambre or cabinet de toilette, used for private grooming areas and then euphemistically for the locations of chamber pots and the plumbing fixtures which took their name from the room. Now generally understood as a direct (even impolitely overly direct) reference to the fixtures.
Origin
- Source language: French