Meaning of house of office | Babel Free

Definitions

An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.

euphemistic, obsolete

Examples

“Going down my cellar to look, I put my foot into a heap of turds, by which I find that Mr Turner’s house of office is full and comes into my cellar, which doth trouble me; but I will have it helped.”

“I never, since I left England, till now, have regal'd Myself with a good house of Office... the holes in Germany are... too round, chiefly owing... to the broader bottoms of the Germans.”

“The very clerks—those somewhat dirty springs Of office, or the House of Office.”

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