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Probably a generic variant of the earlier-attested ladies' room (“a waiting room for women”).
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women's room (plural women's rooms)
- (chiefly US, euphemistic) Synonym of ladies' room: a public lavatory intended for women.
1918 May 16, US Department of Labor, Monthly Labor Review:Women were expected to use the toilet provided for the general public... Plans have been made for a women's room at this station.
- (historical) A waiting room in a railway station or other public building intended exclusively for women and usually including a separate women's lavatory.
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- "woman, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (2011), Oxford: Oxford University Press.