pissoir

First attested in 1919. From French pissoir.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /piːˈswɑː/, /ˈpɪswɑː/

pissoir (plural pissoirs)

1. A public urinal typically found in European, especially French, streets.

   To tackle the problem of street urination, Parisian authorities introduced the pissoir

• 2005, Ed. Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised), Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198610572
• 1999, Ed. Jennifer Speake, The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0425169952
• “Pissoir”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary‎, Merriam-Webster Incorporated, (Please provide a date or year)

pisser + -oir

pissoir m (plural pissoirs)

1. (slang) bog, john

• pissotière
• urinoir

• “pissoir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).