draught-house
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See also: draughthouse and draught house
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Etymology
Noun
draught-house (plural draught-houses)
- (obsolete) An outhouse; an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
- 1611, Bible (KJV), 2 Kings, 10:27:
- They... brake downe the house of Baal, and made it a draught-house.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 220 footnote:
- Moslems and Hindus [...] abhor the unclean and unhealthy use of paper without ablution; and the people of India call European draught-houses, by way of opprobrium, "Kághaz-khánah" = paper closets.
- 1611, Bible (KJV), 2 Kings, 10:27:
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References
- "draught, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary (1897), Oxford: Oxford University Press.