Meaning of powder room | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of ladies' room: a lavatory intended for use by women.
   euphemistic
2. Synonym of half bath: a small room with a toilet and sink but no bathtub or shower.
   euphemistic
3. A room used to store gunpowder, particularly (historical) on a ship equipped with cannon.
4. A room used to powder hair and wigs.
   historical

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Examples

“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!”

“Mutiny is a thing of the fatallest nature in all enterprises whatsoever; a thing so incalculable, swift-frightful; not to be dealt with in fright. But mutiny in a Robespierre Convention, above all,—it is like fire seen sputtering in the ship’s powder-room!”

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