draught-house

See also: draughthouse and draught house

English

Alternative forms

• draughthouse, draught house

Etymology

From draught +‎ house.

Noun

draught-house (plural draught-houses)

1. (obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
   • 1611, Bible (KJV), 2 Kings, 10:27:

     They... brake downe the house of Baal, and made it a draught-house.

   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 220 footnote:

     Moslems and Hindus [...] abhor the unclean and unhealthy use of paper without ablution; and the people of India call European draught-houses, by way of opprobrium, "Kághaz-khánah" = paper closets.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:outhouse

References

• "draught, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary (1897), Oxford: Oxford University Press.