Definitions
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- noun A public street
urinal in France.
Etymologies
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From French vespasienne.
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Examples
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My first request was permission to visit the _vespasienne_.
The Enormous Room 1928
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The good churchman's shades can take comfort in the knowledge that, unlike the everyday poubelle and vespasienne -- the latter disappearing, but still of redolent memory -- the bourdalou, both word and object, has long since fallen out of French vocabulary and usage.
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