Definition of "water-closet" [wa•ter-clos•et]

• A privy; especially, a privy furnished with a contrivance for introducing a stream of water to cleanse it. (noun)

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• "So I arose and went to the water-closet, but not finding him there, went down to the kitchen, where I saw a slave-girl; and when I enquired for him, she showed him to me lying with one of the cookmaids."
• "Indeed thou hast loitered long in the water-closet."
• "No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet."