comfort station

plural comfort stations

1. USeuphemisticA public lavatory.

   Then I told my constituents of an elaboration of my plan: a network of comfort stations centering around the gazebo—a boon to johnless Sausalito.

   1966, Sally Stanford, chapter 14, in The Lady of the House: The Autobiography of Sally Stanford, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 244

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   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.

   2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

   Synonyms: public convenience, public toilet, bathroom, latrine, necessarium, toilet, toilet room, urinal