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Urinal vs Pissoir - What's the difference?

urinal | pissoir |

As nouns the difference between urinal and pissoir

is that urinal is a porcelain, china, or stainless steel appliance, usually in male restrooms but in some places on the street, where males can stand, often side by side, to urinate while pissoir is a public urinal typically found in European, especially French, streets.

urinal

English

(wikipedia urinal)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A porcelain, china, or stainless steel appliance, usually in male restrooms but in some places on the street, where males can stand, often side by side, to urinate.
  • (medicine) A vessel for holding urine; especially, a bottle into which bedridden male patients may urinate.

    • Related terms

    * urine * urinate * urination

    Anagrams

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    pissoir

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A public urinal typically found in European, especially French, streets.
    • To tackle the problem of street urination, Parisian authorities introduced the pissoir

    References

    * 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 * ----