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English
Etymology
From passage in its obsolete sense "passage of feces" and dated sense "place for easy passage of a river etc."[1]
Noun
passage house (plural passage houses)
- (obsolete, rare) An outbuilding used for the passage of feces: an outhouse.
- (archaic, rare) A building providing transportation across a passage: a ferryhouse.
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References
- ^ "passage, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (2005), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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