ladies' room
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ladies' room
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Originally in reference to any chamber or suite reserved for the use of women, whether public or private. Popularized by its use as a clipped form of ladies' waiting room in reference to gender-separated facilities at train stations, etc. Its use in reference to lavatories replaced other euphemisms including cloak room, lavatory room, toilet room, private room, etc.
noun ladies' rooms
- A room belonging to or intended for some or all women, particularly The assailants soon became masters of the whole house, except the room where the general was, and which was strongly barred, and they kept up a constant firing of musketry into the windows and doors, except into those of the ladies' room.
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A waiting room in a railway station or other public building intended exclusively for women and usually including a separate women's lavatory.
...Passenger House, containing ticket office, baggage room, ladies' room, gentlemen's room, water closet, say 50 feet by 20 feet...
Similar: bathroom, women's room
- A public restroom intended for use by females. The women's toilet (as distinguished from the ladies' room in a speakeasy, the johnny at school, the little girls' room at a party in an apartment, and the wash-my-hands on a train) was clean enough.
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noun lavatory intended for women — see also toilet
| 中文 | 女廁 /女厕 nǚcè, 化妝室 /化妆室 huàzhuāngshì |
|---|---|
| Français | toilettes femmes |
| Deutsch | Damentoilette, Damenumkleideraum |
| Română | toaletă feminină |
| Русский | же́нская убо́рная žénskaja ubórnaja, же́нский туале́т žénskij tualét |
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