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Topic: BUILDINGS

Date: 1100-1200
Language: Old French
Origin: privé, from Latin privatus; PRIVATE1

privy

2 noun
     
privy2 plural privies [countable]
DHTBB a toilet, especially one outside a house in a small separate building
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