little girls' room
See also: little girl's room and little girls room
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editOriginally from the need to find public lavatories for children, possibly by analogy with the somewhat earlier-attested little boys' room, but already in broader euphemistic use by its first known appearance in John O'Hara's BUtterfield 8.
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editlittle girls' room (plural little girls' rooms)
- (euphemistic, informal) Synonym of ladies' room: a public lavatory intended for use by women.
- 1935, John O'Hara, BUtterfield 8, Ch. ix, page 279:
- The women's toilet (as distinguished from the ladies' room in a speakeasy, the johnny at school, the little girls' room at a party in an apartment, and the wash-my-hands on a train) was clean enough.
- 1935, John O'Hara, BUtterfield 8, Ch. ix, page 279:
- A room belonging to or used by little girls, particularly their bedroom.
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edit- "little girl, n. and adj." in the Oxford English Dictionary (2014), Oxford: Oxford University Press.