sanitaries

sanitaries

1. plural of sanitary
2. (plural only, euphemistic) Facilities for handling human waste; Structure containing toilets, seats over a cesspit, or tanks for holding excrement.
   • 1864, Educational Pamphlets 48: Hygiene, page 493:

     Building clean, lack of cloak rooms, poor ventilation; sanitaries need attention.

   • 1904, Municipal Register of the City of Waterbury, page 34:

     The sanitaries of the Washington school have outlived their usefulness, the odor from them and their surroundings being very offensive, and in my opinion injurious to pupils and teachers.

   • 2003, Crazy Ivan: Based on a True Story of Submarine Espionage, →ISBN, page 38:

     I'm blowing sanitaries. You pull the lever on that crapper and a few hundred pounds of smelly stuff will fly up your nose in a heart beat.

   • 2016, D. Nolan Clark, Forsaken Skies, →ISBN:

     She headed for the sanitaries rather than the exterior hatch, and Zhang could clearly hear her vomiting inside the tiny compartment.

3. (plural only) White knee-length stockings.
   • 2002, Emil Mihelich, Around the Horn, →ISBN, page 107:

     He picked up his white sanitaries and the red and white striped stirrup socks and sat down on the dressing stool once again before he slipped his feet into the sanitaries, making sure that the elastic tops reached just above his knees.

   • 2010, Denise Moran, Genoa and Kingston, →ISBN:

     The 1909 Genoa High School Baseball Club members are shown wearing striped leggings, or stirrups, over white stockings called “sanitaries.”

   • 2011, Peter Abrahams, Revolution #9, →ISBN:

     He switched on the light and donned his uniform: white pants that stopped high up the calf for the look he liked, sanitaries, navy blue stirrups, worn cleats, and the navy blue shirt that buttoned down the front and had "All-Stars" written on the front and his surname, "Pleasance," and number, "9," on the back.

   • 2014, Andrew Smith, 100 Sideways Miles, →ISBN, page 17:

     Somebody —and I am certain it was Cade Hernandez —must have picked the thing up, because Coach Ritchey's rotten tooth had a way of showing up in a randomly selected boy's sanitaries, cap, or athletic supporter before every game we played.

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