comfort station

English

Noun

comfort station (plural comfort stations)

1. (euphemistic, US) A public lavatory.

   Synonyms: public convenience, public toilet; see also Thesaurus:bathroom

   • 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:

     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.

   • 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.

Translations

euphemism for lavatory

• Finnish: mukavuuslaitos (fi)