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outhouse

noun as in toilet

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It was a different world — one with well-insulated homes and indoor plumbing, not outhouses.

Meanwhile, I welcomed its warmth on trips to the outhouse and while shoveling snow off the deck.

Sharon had lived with an outhouse in Mongolia, “so that was something I was used to,” she said.

They bleached outhouses and the area around the concert stage offered plenty of space for social distancing, she said.

Even at 3am on a rainy night, your only toilet option is a wet and perhaps muddy walk to the outhouse.

Stein says her jail time was "like living in an outhouse in very close quarters."

In many rural Chinese homes, a jar of pesticide—often a variety banned in Western countries—sits in the family outhouse.

Perrier, to avoid these inconveniences, made an under-ground passage, by which his guest could pass to an outhouse.

A door at the side of this led to the little stone outhouse where the water for the pipes both of school and Chapel was heated.

The bath was in an outhouse about fifty yards across the yard from the ward.

But except at one corner of the roof of an outhouse, no damage had been done to the buildings—except the broken glass.

The cat had left her kittens in an outhouse before the snow began, and afterwards proposed to return to them.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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