house of office

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory. euphemistic,obsolete
    — Going down my cellar to look, I put my foot into a heap of turds, by which I find that Mr Turner’s house of office is full and comes into my cellar, which doth trouble me; but I will have it helped.

词形变化

houses of office plural

词源

From the mostly archaic sense of office as a "duty" or "function" and hence unmentionable "bodily functions".
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