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water closet

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noun

an enclosed room or compartment containing a toilet bowl fitted with a mechanism for flushing.

Older Use. a privy or bathroom. Abbreviation: WC, w.c.

Origin of water closet

First recorded in 1745–55

Words nearby water closet

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Example sentences from the Web for water closet

The water-closet was supplied direct from the cistern, the waste from which entered the drain, although it was said to be trapped.

Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II |Arnold Cooley
No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 9 (of 10) |Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
Tell me, then, what secret connection nature has established between an idea and a water-closet.

A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 8 (of 10) |Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
In the bath-room a water-closet, a tub, and generally a wash-stand.

Convenient Houses |Louis Henry Gibson

For example, it is a radical defect of a water-closet to be tightly encased in carpentry.

A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I |Various

British Dictionary definitions for water closet

water closet

noun

a lavatory flushed by water

a small room that has a lavatory

Usually abbreviated to: WC