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siegehouse en · NOUN

Etymology

From siege (“seat, toilet seat”) + house.

Meanings

  1. (euphemistic, obsolete) An outbuilding with toilet seats: an outhouse.
    • The sege houses in þe West~orcherd were graunte to hym. 1440, Coventry Leet Book, page 194:
    • A segehouse wold be vnder the open aire betwene two wallis. 1519, W. Horman, chapter XIX, in Vulgaria, page 170:

Forms

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segehouse alternative lexicographic
siege-house alternative lexicographic
sege house alternative lexicographic
siegehouses Number=Plur lexicographic
sege-house alternative lexicographic
siege house alternative lexicographic

Hypernyms

house

Synonyms

outhouse