commode
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commode
- /kəˈməʊd/
Rhymes with -əʊd
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French commode (literally “convenient”). Doublet of comodo.
noun commodes
- A low chest of drawers on short legs.
- A stand for a washbowl and jug.
- A chair containing a chamber pot. Changing bandages and emptying the commode doesn’t exactly create a sexy environment, but we never talk about doctors’ appointments or heart problems when we’re in our room – we preserve that little bit of space for ourselves.
- A toilet.
- A kind of woman's headdress, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height. Then at the Play-Houſe ye ogle the Boxes, and dop and bovv to thoſe you do not knovv, as vvell as thoſe you do. […] You nuzzle your Noſes into their Hoods and Commodes, […]
