jakes

See also Jakes, and Jakeš

English [edit]

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jakes

(dated) A privy or latrine.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book VI, chapter i
  
  […] whereas the truth-finder, having raked out that jakes, his own mind, and being there capable of tracing no ray of divinity, nor anything virtuous or good, or lovely, or loving, very fairly, honestly, and logically concludes that no such things exist in the whole creation.

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