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powder room
noun
- a room containing a toilet and washing facilities for women; lavatory.
- such a room provided for the use of female guests, as in a restaurant or nightclub.
powder room
noun
- euphemistic.a lavatory for women in a restaurant, department store, etc
Word History and Origins
Origin of powder room1
Example Sentences
Think bigger, like the ceiling of an office or powder room, perhaps the inside of a coffered ceiling or a wall above a fireplace.
We asked several experts to share their favorite powder room paint colors.
Small and self-contained, powder rooms are packed with potential.
The most popular unit, priced at about $1,100 fully installed, is 7 feet high and about the size of a large powder room, or enough to hold a full-size mattress and everything else you can stuff inside.
To reach the powder-room, which is always situated in the after-part of a vessel, was easy.
Mrs. Dunn, Mrs. Sweatt and I spent the time making cartridges in the powder room in our stocking feet.
I have searched, as you call it—that is, I have crawled through the hold as far as the powder-room.
But mutiny in a Robespierre Convention, above all,—it is like fire seen sputtering in the ship's powder-room!
In Hanover, the powder room was in the steeple, while in Quincy the "powder-closite" was in the beams of the roof.
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