English Dictionary

house of office

noun

(obsolete, euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.

The house of office was once a common term for a public toilet.

意味（1）

(obsolete, euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.

I never, since I left England, till now, have regal'd Myself with a good house of Office... the holes in Germany are... too round, chiefly owing... to the broader bottoms of the Germans.