privy house

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An outhouse: an outbuilding used for urination and defecation.
    — I wil that ye newe prevy hous ovir the synkke be the dore... serve for the parlour and chambir a loffte.

词形变化

privy houses plural privy-house alternative

词源

From privy (“outhouse”) to clarify the intended sense, likely under the influence of Anglo-Norman privé hostel (attested in an 1139 British source) and Latin domus privata (1141).
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