Meaning of privy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An outdoor facility for urination and defecation, whether open (latrine) or enclosed (outhouse).
2. A lavatory: a room with a toilet.
3. A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
4. A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.

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Examples

“To counteract these degrading effects he advised that the privy should be in every house the room nearest to heaven, […].”

“Arconum—I found two chairs wanting in the gentlemen's room, and the bath room attached applied to other purposes... the privies and urinaries clean...”

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