Meaning of plumbered | Babel Free

Definitions

Equipped with plumbing.

informal, not-comparable, rare

Examples

“One and all the home-grown film public has reared its noses that twitch delightedly over the lavishly plumbered (coined word!) bathrooms of Cecil B. De Mille,^([sic]) who knows his sunken tubs, wash⟳ basins and bath mats.”

“Goals shift slowly—just now we have⟳ physical comfort and safety as prime illusions; but it is almost certain that life would offer⟳ more and richer gratifications to imaginatively developed men if we could have⟳ a little less of these modern idols, and a little more of that divine freedom, adventure, and vivifying sense⟳ of uncertainty and irregularity which the virile individual enjoyed in less plumbered and policed days.”

“But so many have⟳ been irretrievably spoiled by ill-advised and crudely undertaken alterations and additions! For every one photographed, at least a dozen have⟳ been passed by because of the unfeeling treatment, rather than the neglect⟳, to which they have⟳ been forcibly subjected! Mere neglect⟳ usually but adds illusion to the element of the picturesque. But the country carpenter—even possibly the city architect of general practice—may not possess⟳ that delicate sensibility that is necessary to take⟳ over these simple little survivors of an early age, and continue⟳ their charm and beauty, in a little enlarged and perhaps more fully dormered—and, possibly, also plumbered!—version.”

“All used trailers have⟳ been remodeled, all with different floor plans, all completely wired and plumbered, all with electric brakes, good tires and ready to roll.”

“Proded by the White House, there is now a pronounced shift in the official attitude toward water pollution. The bureaucratic torpor is dissipating. Industry is mo longer brazen about its wastes. But until our well-plumbered citizenry in general commits itself to anti-pollution appropriations and to strong individual support⟳ of clean⟳ waters, Americans are doomed to chant, along with Charles Palmer at the Legislative Correspondents’ annual dinner: / “You keep⟳ going your way, / I’ll keep⟳ going my way, / River, stay⟳ away from our door!””

“Now, it may strike⟳ you as a bit strange how the codes of wildness, freeness, urgency, the primitive and such have⟳ become⟳ the basis of our visual doctrine about what’s really cottage country and what isn’t—especially since the Muskoka spectacle of endless electrified, plumbered, septic-tanked little houses quickly accessible from Toronto by paved roads is not exactly a vision of the Forest Primeval.”

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