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Example sentences for: lavatory

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), its blasé invocation of an all-enveloping legal regime ("We remind you that it is a federal offense to tamper with, disable, or destroy any lavatory smoke detector.
Terms such as toilet and lavatory have, like privy , undergone pejoration over the years (that is, their meanings have acquired depreciatory connotations).
Too often prisons are called correction facilities; a lavatory with urinals a bathroom; and as Briggs wrote, dope a controlled substance.
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.
[Note to non-British readers: spend a penny is a British idiom meaning go to the lavatory, obviously a reference to the ubiquity of pay toilets.]