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English
Etymology
From jakes (“outhouse; lavatory”) + house, to clarify the intended sense.[1]
Noun
jakeshouse (plural jakeshouses)
- (obsolete) An outbuilding with a jakes: an outhouse.
- 1577, "H.I." translating H. Bullinger as 50 Godlie Sermons, III, v, iii:
- A dounghill God, a God of the jakeshouse.
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- ^ "jakes, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (1900), Oxford: Oxford University Press.