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Example sentences for: latrines
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On Meet the Press , Tim Russert said Putin had called the Chechen rebels "dark-skinned people who must be annihilated" and had warned that "they will be found in latrines and killed."
It would be impossible to compile a definitive glossary for this group, but a few examples follow: the heads (naval colloquialism, dating from the late nineteenth century, said to be from the location of the latrines on a ship); the longs (pet-name for latrines at Brasenose College, Oxford, from c. 1870, so-called because they were built from funds donated by a certain Lady Long); and greenhouses (Ulysses , Book VIII), James Joyce's personal slang for the public toilets after the color of their paint.
Six hundred years ago, toilet designs, though crude, were what we might term today latrines (the Middle English word was laterin from Latin latrina): planks of wood with circles cut into them, placed over a ditch.
Hepatitis flourishes because troops don't know how to dig latrines.