draught-house

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From draught +‎ house.

Noun[edit]

draught-house (plural draught-houses)

  1. (obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
    • 1611, Bible (KJV), 2 Kings, 10:27:
      They... brake downe the house of Baal, and made it a draught-house.
    • 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 220 footnote:
      Moslems and Hindus [...] abhor the unclean and unhealthy use of paper without ablution; and the people of India call European draught-houses, by way of opprobrium, "Kághaz-khánah" = paper closets.

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References[edit]

  • "draught, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary (1897), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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