siegehouse

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See also: siege-house and siege house

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From siege (“seat, toilet seat”) + house.[1]

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siegehouse (plural siegehouses)

  1. (euphemistic, obsolete) An outbuilding with toilet seats: an outhouse.
    • 1440, Coventry Leet Book, page 194:
      The sege houses in þe West~orcherd were graunte to hym.
    • 1519, W. Horman, chapter XIX, in Vulgaria, page 170:
      A segehouse wold be vnder the open aire betwene two wallis.

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  1. ^ "siege, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (1910), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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