pissoirs

Some cities have free, low-tech public urinals called "pissoirs" - no joke that offer just enough privacy for men to find relief ... sometimes with a view.

The Seattle Times 2010

Britain's shortage of public pissoirs means that 95 percent of Brits have urinated, defecated or vomited in public.

Boing Boing 2007

The grand pissoirs are overflowing with drug deals inside or in front, and too often the intended toilet users use the public way instead.

Sound Politics: Time To Flush Seattle's Street Toilets? 2006

But I would not put their ‘pissoirs’ on the short list of French accomplishments.

No Downtown Restrooms at cvillenews.com 2002

There could be a good public health and public nuisance motive to getting permanent public toilets installed — be they something like the ultra-modern self-contained cabins in Paris/NYC/San Fran, or the simple pissoirs seen in so many European cities.

No Downtown Restrooms at cvillenews.com 2002

Kids who knew their secrets played ball-hockey nearly undisturbed by cars, junkies turned them into reeking pissoirs, homeless people dossed down in the lees of their low, crazy-angled buildings, teenagers came and necked around corners.

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Cory Doctorow

I then sometimes visited _pissoirs_ or, as they are often called, 'panoramas'

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899

This man told me of several parks and _pissoirs_ where men met, and I went to these places now and again for erotic adventure.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899

He has launched the last great prank, a plague of pissoirs - and over the next few years, we'll find ourselves drowning in Duchamp urinals, causing their value to go through the floor.

Culture | guardian.co.uk Sam Leith 2010

Just how many of these damn pissoirs - sorry, historic artworks - are there?

Culture | guardian.co.uk Sam Leith 2010