lavatorial
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin lavātōrius + -al.[1] By surface analysis, lavatory + -al.
Adjective
[edit]lavatorial (comparative more lavatorial, superlative most lavatorial)
- Of or pertaining to a lavatory
- 2021 December 29, Conrad Landin, “Glasgow Subway: a city institution”, in RAIL, number 947, page 45:
- The station interiors were also suffering. "The universal lavatorial glazed tiling is dirty and cracked, the paint is peeling, and there is a general air of decay," Guardian journalist Charles Cook wrote in a 1974 feature. But as Cook himself discovered, this decrepitness disguised the positives of Underground travel.
- scatological
Related terms
[edit]- lavatory (adjective)
References
[edit]- “lavatorial”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ^ “lavatorial, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.