pissoir
See also: Pissoir
English edit
Etymology edit
First attested in 1919. From French pissoir.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pissoir (plural pissoirs)
- A public urinal typically found in European, especially French, streets.
- To tackle the problem of street urination, Parisian authorities introduced the pissoir
References edit
- 2005, Ed. Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised), Oxford University Press, →ISBN
- 1999, Ed. Jennifer Speake, The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English, Oxford University Press, →ISBN
- “Pissoir”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Incorporated, (Can we date this quote?)
French edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
pissoir m (plural pissoirs)
Descendants edit
- → Czech: pisoár
- → Finnish: pisoaari
- → German: Pissoir
- → Polish: pisuar
- → Romanian: pisoar
- → Russian: писсуар (pissuar)
- → Turkish: pisuvar
Further reading edit
- “pissoir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.