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▪ I. lavatory, n.|ˈlævətərɪ|
Forms: 4–7 lavatorie, -ye, 6 lavatori, lavetarye, 4– lavatory.
[ad. L. lavātōrium a place for washing, f. lavāre to wash: see lave v.1]
1. a. A vessel for washing, a laver, a bath. Also Eccl. † (a) a piscina; (b) (see quot. 1866).
a1375Lay Folks Mass Bk. App. iv. 606 Whon he haþ vsed he walkeþ riht To Lauatorie þer hit is diht For to wassche his hende. 1382Wyclif Exod. xxx. 18 And thow shalt make a brasun lauatory with his foot to wasshe with. 14..Lydg. in Lay Folks Mass Bk. App. v. 135 Whan the preste gothe to the lauatori. 1412Contract for Catterick Church (1834) 10 An awter and a lauatory acordaunt in the este end. 1435Contract for Fotheringhay Church in Dugdale Monast. (1673) III. ii. 163 Lavatoris in aither side of the wall, which shall serve for four Auters. 1519Test. Ebor. (Surtees) V. 100 To be buried wtin the where, nyghte to the lavatori. 1538Inv. in Archæol. LI. 72 Itm the lavetarye of tynne and lead. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. iii. sect. xv. 77 They should dip in his lavatory, and be washed with his baptism. 1839Longfellow Hyperion iv. iii, On a lavatory, below, sat a cherub. 1866Direct. Angl. (ed. 3) 355 Lavatory, a water drain in the Sacristy where the Priest washes his hands before vesting.
†b. fig. and in fig. phrases. Cf. lavacre, laver n.2
1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 74 The lavatorye we graunte of immortalite Here in this watir. a1500Mankind (Brandl 1896) 39/12 By hys gloryus passyone, þat blyssyde lauatorye. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 60 b, As in the lauatory of grace thou mayst wasshe..the..by confessyon. 1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 310 The lauatorie of holy regeneration. a1633Austin Medit. (1635) 196 Converting it [Jordan] into the Lavatory of Baptisme.
2. a. Eccl. The ritual washing of the celebrant's hands: (a) at the offertory (cf. lavabo 1 a); † (b) after the cleansing of the vessels following the communion.
a1512Fabyan Will in Chron. Pref. 4 Wt condicion that at the tyme of the Lavatory eueryche of theym turne theym to the people, and exorte theym to pray for y⊇ soules following. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 261 From the latter lauatory vnto Ite missa est. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 899/2 When he had sayd Masse, he made Dukes and Earles..to hold the bason at the Lauatories. 1896Brightman Liturgies E. & W. I. Gloss., Lavatory, the handwashing on the part of the minister at the offertory... While the offertory either wholly or in part has been moved back to the beginning of the [Eastern] liturgy, the lavatory has generally kept its place.
b. gen. The act of washing.
1620Shelton Quix. ii. xxxii. 211 The Duke and Duchesse..stood expecting what would become of this Lauatory.
†3. A lotion, a wash. Obs.
1490Caxton Eneydos xxviii. 110 They must be wasshed wyth wyne or wyth some other lauatorye. 1544T. Phaer Regim. Lyfe (1560) H iv b, Ye may minister the lavatorie that herafter ensueth. 1665Harvey Advice agst. Plague 14 Lavatories to wash the temples, hands, wrists, and Jugulars. 1694Westmacott Script. Herb. 19 Barbers use them for their grateful smell to perfume their lavatories and washes.
4. An apartment furnished with apparatus for washing the hands and face, subsequently also including water-closets, etc. In the 20th c. one of the more usual words for a W.C. (and in turn giving way to more recent euphemisms: lav., loo, toilet, etc.).
In some examples ellipt. for the appliance itself.
1656Blount Glossogr., Lavatory, a place or vessel to wash in, a Font or Conduit; [1661 addition: such is that at the Buttery door of the Inner Temple, where the Gentlemen wash their hands; also a Laundry.] 1845W. Saunders Guide Brighton 68 By a sudden turn to the left, we attain ‘The Cottage’; at the far end of its porch is the gentlemen's room, denominated by a contemporary a Lavatory. 1860Luck of Ladysmede II. 78 The good Benedictine carried him off into the lavatory. 1864Morning Star 2 Feb., There are separate lavatories for the men and for the women and children. 1924F. M. Ford Some do Not i. ii. 37 The hotel having been a former Grand Ducal hunting-box, freshened to suit the taste of the day with varnished pitch-pine, bathrooms, verandahs, and excessively modern but noisy lavatory arrangements. 1963J. T. Story Something for Nothing iii. 106 Albert closed the door and sat down on the lavatory. 1965Listener 2 Sept. 351/2 Flush Conscience down the lavatory. 1967Ibid. 3 Aug. 144/3 Certain kinds of help are..needed... Lavatories a disabled person can get in and onto. Ibid. 21 Dec. 802/1 ‘Loo’ is holding its own fairly well and most of ‘Toilet's’ gains have been at the expense of ‘Lavatory’. 1973A. S. Neill Neill! Neill! Orange Peel! (rev. ed.) ii. 189 What did people use in the lavatory before the invention of paper?
5. A laundry.
1661[see prec. sense]. 1878Stevenson Inland Voy. 180 We landed at a floating lavatory, where the washer⁓women were still beating the clothes.
6. = lavadero.
1727–52Chambers Cycl., Lavatory, or Lavadero.
7. (See quot.)
185.Archit. Dict. (Archit. Publ. Soc.), Lavatory, a paved room, belonging to a dead-house, in which a corpse that is to be examined is kept under a shower of some disinfecting fluid.
8. attrib.: lavatory attendant, lavatory basin, lavatory brush, lavatory chain, lavatory cleanser, lavatory pan, lavatory paper, lavatory seat; lavatory humour, unsavoury or unwholesome humour making undue reference to lavatories (cf. lavatorial a. 3); so lavatory joke; lavatory period, style, a period or style of architecture with ‘lavatorial’ characteristics (cf. lavatorial a. 2); † lavatory stone, a piscina.
1930I. Low His Master's Voice xv. 217 A lavatory attendant might make a similar boast thought Nikulin. 1939C. Isherwood Goodbye to Berlin 29 The little old lavatory attendant in his white jacket. 1964R. Petrie Murder by Precedent i. 20 Lavatory attendants..aren't as likely to insure their lives as professional men.
1926–7Army & Navy Stores Catal. 321 ‘Vitrella’ should be used for cleaning all porcelain baths, lavatory basins, sinks. 1931Times 16 Mar. 22/1 (Advt.), Lavatory basin in best bed room. 1963B.S.I. News Apr. 33 Ceramic lavatory basins.
1939–40Army & Navy Stores Catal. 167/2 Lavatory brush holder. 1962House & Garden Dec. 51/1 Lavatory brush and container, 12 s. 1969A. E. Lindop Sight Unseen xxix. 245 A bottle of bourbon..stood in the stand which usually held the lavatory brush.
c1932Dylan Thomas Lett. (1966) 5 Give me..a book by Paul de Kock, and thou, thou old lavatory chain. 1964V. S. Naipaul Area of Darkness iv. 94 At four..we heard him rise and get ready for his walk: lavatory chain, gargling, clattering, doors.
1926–7Army & Navy Stores Catal. 469/3 Harpic Lavatory Cleanser. 1963V. Nabokov Gift ii. 83 The lavatory humour and crude laughter. 1970Sunday Times (Colour Suppl.) 15 Mar. 25/1 He was real blue, if you like. Some of his jokes. Lavatory humour, my Dan used to call it.
1954N. Tomalin in Granta 6 Nov. 23/2 All in all the most amazing thing about the show is the preponderance of lavatory jokes. 1966A. E. Lindop I start Counting xx. 256, I clutched my head over the lavatory pan. 1974Listener 24 Jan. 100/1 After an atomic explosion, the last things to disintegrate would be articles made of vitreous porcelain—for example, wash-basins and lavatory pans.
1926–7Army & Navy Stores Catal. 121/2 Lavatory Paper Holder. 1956A. S. C. Ross in M. Black Importance of Lang. (1962) 103 Non-U toilet-paper / U lavatory-paper. 1974Times 23 Jan. 14/4 The Americans..had their lavatory paper panic first.
1952A. Christie They do it with Mirrors iii. 24 ‘It's pretty ghastly, really,’ said Gina cheerfully. ‘A sort of Gothic monstrosity. What Steve calls Best Victorian Lavatory period.’
1939G. Household Rogue Male 255, I made him sit on the lavatory seat and read me the shipping news. 1973Country Life 20 Sept. 784/2 Three industries of Derbyshire..[are] the manufacture of artificial flowers, lavatory seats and mint sauce.
1487–8Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 651, iiijor spultes cum j lavatory stone.
1937H. G. Wells Camford Visitation i. 5 That University affair they are building in London..is all made, they tell me, of a sort of mineral nougat, lavatory style. 1944J. Agate Red Letter Nights 141 Liliom commits suicide, and is projected into a celestial police court, the architecture of which is copied from the Early Lavatory style of the National Liberal Club.
Add:[8.] lavatory bowl.
1974V. Canning Mask of Memory v. 88 He walked down the corridor to the toilet, burnt the letter over the *lavatory bowl and flushed the ashes away. 1980Q. Skinner in Michaels & Ricks State of Language 567 Recall the way in which Marcel Duchamp liked to designate certain familiar objects (coat-pegs, lavatory bowls) as works of art.
▪ II. lavatory, a.|ˈlævətərɪ|
[ad. assumed L. *lavātōri-us, f. lavāre to wash: see lave v.1]
Of or pertaining to washing.
1846in Worcester citing Month. Rev. 1865Merivale Rom. Emp. VIII. lxvi. 217 The latter..contrasts the lavatory resources of Rome with those of Grecian cities generally. 1890Cornh. Mag. Oct. 358 His linen long-coat is a perfect marvel of the lavatory art,..so snowy white is it. |