house of office
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house of office
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From the mostly archaic sense of office as a "duty" or "function" and hence unmentionable "bodily functions".
noun houses of office
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An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
Going down my cellar to look, I put my foot into a heap of turds, by which I find that Mr Turner’s house of office is full and comes into my cellar, which doth trouble me; but I will have it helped.
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