comfort station en · NOUN
Meanings
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(US, euphemistic) A public lavatory.
Then I told my constituents of an elaboration of my plan: a network of comfort stations centering around the gazebo—a boon to johnless Sausalito.
1966, Sally Stanford, chapter 14, in The Lady of the House: The Autobiography of Sally Stanford, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 244:From the Kierkegaard Room he lopingly careened through a red-carpeted hallway that had previously vouchsafed him a comfort station but this morning seemed all business, no M or W in sight, just salons and boutiques and the Ingmar Bergman Cinema.
2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| comfort stations | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
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Translations (1)
fi mukavuuslaitos (euphemism for lavatory)