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  • noun Plural form of lavatory.

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Examples

  • Hot air hand dryers, the kind used in lavatories of cheapskate businesses, do a lousy job.

    Boing Boing: May 2, 2004 - May 8, 2004 Archives 2004

  • “Sick and shivery” (as Light imagines the nervous writer), Virginia decided to fire her the next day, but instead the Woolfs compromised again, hiring a char to do more of the rough work (cleaning lavatories).

    Imperfect Union 2009

  • Gennady Padalka, a veteran Russian cosmonaut, says that space officials from Russia, the United States and other countries now require cosmonauts and astronauts to eat their own food and follow stringent rules on access to other facilities, including lavatories.

    Discourse.net: True or False 2009

  • Calixto Bieto, ENO, 2002The scene of 14 conspirators sitting on lavatories grabbed the headlines, but this updating to post-Franco Spain remains the most successful of Bieto's provocative productions seen in the UK.

    Ten productions that changed British opera 2011

  • Why don't they just put meters on the facilities, including the lavatories, and issue cards to the astronauts and cosmonauts so that they can use any facility at any time?

    Discourse.net: True or False 2009

  • “Sick and shivery” (as Light imagines the nervous writer), Virginia decided to fire her the next day, but instead the Woolfs compromised again, hiring a char to do more of the rough work (cleaning lavatories).

    Imperfect Union 2009

  • Alone, Declan found the door to the lavatories, searching until he located a sink that still pumped well water.

    Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011

  • Ayckbourn recently mistook a burglar in his home for one of his regular flow of visitors, and was caught up in a brief but passionate debate over whether his theatre was as important as threatened local public lavatories.

    Alan Ayckbourn archive to be available to the public 2011

  • They met up with Thad outside the lavatories, then the three emerged from the bunker into pouring rain and whipping winds.

    Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011

  • Ayckbourn recently mistook a burglar in his home for one of his regular flow of visitors, and was caught up in a brief but passionate debate over whether his theatre was as important as threatened local public lavatories.

    Alan Ayckbourn archive to be available to the public 2011

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