latrine
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The parasite analysis focused on sediment taken from a sewer drain connected to the latrine block of a bath complex dating to the 3rd century CE.
From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2025
There was no water, and the stench of the latrine was unbearable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 18, 2025
Here are treasures from the Roman latrine to the Tudor garderobe to the Victorian water closet to the elegant “compactum.”
From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2024
Begum sits now amid the misery and the muck of the camps as the stench from a nearby latrine wafts by, wishing she could hear her children call her “mother” one more time.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2023
They had abandoned their old latrine to the Americans—and their the-ater, the place where the feast had been held, too.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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Vocabulary lists containing latrine
"Be Prepared" by Vera Brosgol
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Selection Vocabulary 3, Unit 2
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