lavatory
la vuh taw ree
- n a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
- n a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face
- n a toilet that is cleaned of waste by the flow of water through it
- According to flight crews, the lavatory is, not surprisingly, where most mile-highers choose to do the deed.
- In Manhattan's Central Park, across Fifth Avenue from Jacqueline Kennedy's apartment, a 42-year-old stock clerk named Angel Angelof waited inside a women's public lavatory.
- NTSB officials suspect that the fire may have been started by a cigarette in a back-cabin lavatory.