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purging_place

purging place

English

Noun

purging place (plural purging places)

  1. A place where purging occurs, particularly:
    1. (premodern medicine, obsolete) A body part where excess humors are expelled.
    2. (obsolete) A place where the body is purged of waste: a latrine; an outhouse; a lavatory.
    3. (Christianity, now rare) The place where the soul is purged of sin: Purgatory.

Synonyms

  • (toilet facilities): See Wikisaurus:bathroom

Hypernyms

  • place; see also Wikisaurus:bathroom

References

  1. "purging, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (2007), Oxford: Oxford University Press.