pissoir
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See also: Pissoir
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]First attested in 1919. From French pissoir.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pissoir (plural pissoirs)
- A public urinal typically found in European, especially French, streets.
- To tackle the problem of street urination, Parisian authorities introduced the pissoir
References
[edit]- 2005, Ed. Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised), Oxford University Press, →ISBN
- 1999, Ed. Jennifer Speake, The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English, Oxford University Press, →ISBN
- “Pissoir”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Incorporated, (Can we date this quote?)
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]pissoir m (plural pissoirs)
Descendants
[edit]- → Czech: pisoár
- → Estonian: pissuaar
- → Finnish: pisoaari
- → German: Pissoir
- → Polish: pisuar
- → Romanian: pisoar
- → Russian: писсуар (pissuar)
- → Turkish: pisuvar
Further reading
[edit]- “pissoir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.