pissoir
See also: Pissoir
English
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Etymology
First attested in 1919. From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French pissoir.
Pronunciation
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Noun
pissoir (plural pissoirs)
- A public urinal typically found in European, especially French, streets.
- To tackle the problem of street urination, Parisian authorities introduced the pissoir
References
- 2005, Ed. Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised), Oxford University Press, →ISBN
- 1999, Ed. Jennifer Speake, The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English, Oxford University Press, →ISBN
- “Pissoir”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary[1], Merriam-Webster Incorporated, (Can we date this quote?)
French
Etymology
Noun
pissoir m (plural pissoirs)
Synonyms
Descendants
- → Czech: pisoár
Further reading
- “pissoir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.