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US
/ˈɫævəˌtɔɹi/
]
[ UK /lˈævətəɹˌi/ ]
[ UK /lˈævətəɹˌi/ ]
NOUN
- a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
- a toilet that is cleaned of waste by the flow of water through it
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a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face
he ran some water in the basin and splashed it on his face
How To Use lavatory In A Sentence
- I swallowed my tears and washed my face in the small sink in the adjacent lavatory.
- There are flowers everywhere: on a pair of sandals, on a box of tissues, in vivid bloom on the top of a lavatory.
- In his biography Alec Guinness: The Unknown, Garry O'Connor reveals that Guinness was arrested and fined 10 guineas for a homosexual act in a public lavatory in Liverpool in 1946.
- He demoted her to lavatory attendant. A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
- There must be at least one bath or shower, one lavatory and one kitchen between five people. Times, Sunday Times
- He could see his reflection, turned gaunt and ashen, in the fragment of mirror propped against the lavatory window.
- The gents' lavatory has dirty walls with peeling paint and loose tiles. Times, Sunday Times
- While toilet and lavatory have discarded their original meanings, terms such as bog retained their original meanings (` a marshy place ') as well as being understood in Britain as a slang synonym for a toilet; it achieved an entry in Hotten's dictionary as early as 1864 as "a privy as distinguished from a water-closet. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4
- There would be all sorts of things rattling down on you - railings and chamber pots and lavatory pots.
- When she walked the few steps to the lavatory she needed a rest. Times, Sunday Times