commodenoun [ C ]
uk/kəˈməʊd/us/kəˈmoʊd/a piece of furniture that looks like a chair but has a container in the seat that people who are ill or old can use as a toilet
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Chairs & seats
- -seater
- armchair
- armrest
- banquette
- bar stool
- beach chair
- booster seat
- footstool
- front seat
- high chair
- living room suite
- lounger
- perch
- rocking chair
- sag bag
- seating
- settee
- stall
- stool
- window seat
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Parts of buildings: the toilet
Examples from literature
- Commodes and screens were ornamented with Chinese lacquer, which had been imported by the Dutch and taken to Paris, after the French invasion of the Netherlands.
- I couldn't go without a commode.
- In France the variations of type were even more numerous than in England, and it is sometimes difficult to distinguish a commode from a buffet.
- There are beautiful examples of his work in many of the great collections of furniture, notably the wonderful commode in the Wallace collection.
- Two commodes, with ill-fitting lids, sufficed for ten men, and in the underground apartment to which we were condemned, and of which the ventilation was very indifferent, the conditions became nauseating.