washroom

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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From wash + room in reference to its sinks, but generally used euphemistically outside of Canada and the United States.

To have a private washroom was luxurious. — Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
"'Oh, you mean the Frenchman,' replied the purser; 'he's in the washroom.' — Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude, Austin Bidwell
No one had left the car and no one had entered either washroom. — Minute Mysteries [Detectograms], H. A. (Harold Austin) Ripley

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