passage house

See also: passage-house

English

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Etymology

From passage in its obsolete sense "passage of feces" and dated sense "place for easy passage of a river etc."[1]

Noun

passage house (plural passage houses)

  1. (obsolete, rare) An outbuilding used for the passage of feces: an outhouse.
  2. (archaic, rare) A building providing transportation across a passage: a ferryhouse.

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References
  1. "passage, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (2005), Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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