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ˈwater-ˌcloset
A closet or small room fitted up to serve as a privy, and furnished with water-supply to flush the pan and discharge its contents into a waste-pipe below. Often abbreviated W.C.
Sometimes applied to the pan and the connected apparatus for flushing and discharge; also, loosely, to any kind of privy.
1755Connoisseur No. 100 It was always my office..to attend him in the water-closet when he took a cathartic. 1760H. Walpole Let. to G. Montagu 25 Oct., A little after seven, he went into the water-closet. 1819Scott in Lockhart IV. 248, I am happy to learn it has that useful English comfort, a water-closet. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Builder 409 The different parts of water-closets are made in a similar way, and sold to the plumber. 1825Fosbroke Encycl. Antiq. 348 Water-closet. That of the palace of the Cæsars is adorned with marble, arabesques and mosaicks. 1877H. Robinson & Melliss Purif. Water-carried Sewage 1 Water-closets do not add very much to the volume of sewage.
attrib.1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm I. 218 Fine water-closet latch, with snibbing-bolt. 1873B. Latham Sanitary Engin. 39 A district in which the water-closet system is intended only to be partially adopted.
Hence ˈwater-ˌcloseted a. [-ed2], fitted or provided with water-closets.
1876Jrnl. Soc. Arts 9 June 725/2 A town..well water-closeted and containing no manufactories. |