comfort station

English

Noun

comfort station (plural comfort stations)

(euphemistic, US) A public lavatory.
- 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
  From the Kierkegaard Room he lopingly careened through a red-carpeted hallway that had previously vouchsafed him a comfort station but this morning seemed all business, no M or W in sight, just salons and boutiques and the Ingmar Bergman Cinema.

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:bathroom

Translations

euphemism for lavatory

Finnish: mukavuuslaitos (fi)

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