comfort station

English

Noun

comfort station (plural comfort stations)

1. (euphemistic, US) A public lavatory.
   • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

     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.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:bathroom

Translations

euphemism for lavatory

• Finnish: mukavuuslaitos (fi)