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Privies

Scope note

Rooms or spaces that are within buildings and have one or more seats and a pit used as toilets which lack plumbing facilities, distinguished from "outhouses" which are separate structures in domestic contexts containing similar arrangements of toilet facilities. For rooms or spaces with toilets having plumbing, use "bathrooms" or "lavatories (rooms)."

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

30008006

Equivalent Terms used

privy

Created

13yrs ago

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