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“The powder room”. Or what do you call it?

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Feelingmyage55 Thu 08-Aug-19 00:50:10

Inspired by SueDonim on the Moaning thread mentioning “the powder room”. I wondered about all the different ways you all refer to “spending a penny”.

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Atqui Fri 09-Aug-19 20:42:39

I’ve been doing some research and it seems that’s the French had a receptacle called a bourdalou which was a female urinal. Could this be the origin of ^ loo^ ?

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M0nica Fri 09-Aug-19 20:45:40

It seems likely, but even if the derivation was from l'eau. pronunciations of words change all the times and l'eau could easily become pronounced loo

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