Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A public urinal, especially one located on a street.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a public urinal, in European countries.
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- noun A
public urinal typically found inEuropean , especiallyFrench ,streets .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Her boutique pissoir is apparently helping to fill the gap left by a decline in public bathrooms in London.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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Her boutique pissoir is apparently helping to fill the gap left by a decline in public bathrooms in London.
Urinating in London 2007
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So, unless the viewing in the Michaud pissoir was of an engorged and distended “Scottie” — which it plainly was not — then Papa was offering Fitzgerald a surrogate form of consolation.
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So, unless the viewing in the Michaud pissoir was of an engorged and distended “Scottie” — which it plainly was not — then Papa was offering Fitzgerald a surrogate form of consolation.
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So, unless the viewing in the Michaud pissoir was of an engorged and distended “Scottie” — which it plainly was not — then Papa was offering Fitzgerald a surrogate form of consolation.
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My pee was just not good enough for the elitist pissoir.
Alan Black: The See-Through Curtain Between the Flying Classes 2010
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“It's a contemplative space designed by a 21st century landscape architect, though rather than being used as a place of serene meditation, it became the well-concealed playground of horny teens, drug dealers and rapists, as well as the pissoir of inebriated sports fans.”
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Many moons ago, a friend announced to his French host family (Junior Year Abroad) - "Je veux nager dans une pissoir".
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Then he disappeared into a pissoir and shouted to Mamaine, "Don't leave me, I love you, I'll always love you."
Did The Death Of Communism Take Koestler And Other Literary Figures With It? 2010
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Then he disappeared into a pissoir and shouted to Mamaine, "Don't leave me, I love you, I'll always love you."
Did The Death Of Communism Take Koestler And Other Literary Figures With It? 2010
john commented on the word pissoir
"The loo experience has become as important to the people who design restaurants in New York as gleaming open kitchens were in the 80's. No building material is too obscure, no plumbing detail below notice. Not terribly long ago, a conversation pissoir was still a novelty. You had Phillipe Starck's men's room waterfall in the Royalton. You had Bar 89 in SoHo, where the glass doors shift from transparent to opaque -- as long as the user remembers to turn the lock."
The New York Times, Behind the 'M' And the 'W,' A New Style, by Rick Marin, August 2, 2000
September 9, 2008