noun
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a room containing a bath or shower and usually a washbasin and lavatory
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another name for lavatory
Etymology
Origin of bathroom
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Example Sentences
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While viewers at home watch an onslaught of commercials during breaks in the show, the audience inside the venue makes a mad dash to bathrooms, bars and concession stands.
From Los Angeles Times
Our bed was comfortable, bathroom spacious, with double sinks and a rainshower, and the room spacious.
From Salon
Those changes were accompanied by more hard-edged policies, such as stricter uniforms for staff and rules that bar people from using the bathroom without a purchase.
From BBC
Yet today’s female performers are tasked to perform all the time, even setting up cameras in their bathrooms to live-stream how they scrub their face.
From Los Angeles Times
“This is all we had. I took all the money in the house too. Leonor used to hide it under the bathroom sink, in a soap tin.”
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