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Example sentences for: lavatory

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The original meaning of lavatory was simply a vessel for washing: in his 1382 translation of the Bible, John Wycliffe talks of washing feet in a brasun lavatorie [Exodus xxx.18].
Terms such as toilet and lavatory have, like privy , undergone pejoration over the years (that is, their meanings have acquired depreciatory connotations).
Among these are: “Get Back” (a sign flashed on TV to invite or command the viewer to return after the commercial, or maybe promising that the production will return then); “Pants 50% Down” (ad for a sale); “in my side” (for my part; on my side of the argument); “Step the Pedal — Water Will Flow” (sign in a train lavatory); “Drive-Thru Window” (at the bank); “How do you doing?”
On another occasion, Zercher says, she pushed open an unlocked lavatory door to find Clinton standing there, unzipped.
While toilet and lavatory have discarded their original meanings, terms such as bog retained their original meanings (a marshy place) as well as being understood in Britain as a slang synonym for a toilet; it achieved an entry in Hotten's dictionary as early as 1864 as a privy as distinguished from a water-closet.