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单词 chalet of necessity
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chalet of necessity
2. A building containing a toilet or toilets for the use of the public. Also more fully chalet of necessity [after French chalet de necessité (1876 or earlier)] . Now chiefly historical.Originally and chiefly with reference to such facilities in France.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > water-closet or lavatory > public
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1881 Manch. Courier 16 Sept. 6/5 So greatly has the demand for them increased that the municipality of Paris have decided to erect a hundred additional ‘chalets’.
1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Oct. 3 A protest against the proposed erection of the chalets at Ludgate-Circus.
1897 Encycl. Social Reform 807/2 To avoid any hesitancy in visiting a public convenience, designs have been recently submitted in London for what are called ladies' châlets.
1934 S. Beckett More Pricks than Kicks 61 Mistinguett would do away with chalets of necessity. She does not think them necessary.
1980 Times 27 Feb. 6/8 The City of Paris has decided to erect..three space age vespasians..new ‘chalets of necessity’—as they are called.
2002 Irish Times (Nexis) 31 Aug. 51 While never a legal obligation, provision of such chalets was to become a necessity for any self-respecting town during the 20th century.
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