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Definition of Toilet bowl
1. Noun. The bowl of a toilet that can be flushed with water.
Definition of Toilet bowl
1. Noun. Receptacle designed to receive the dejections of humans. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toilet Bowl
Literary usage of Toilet bowl
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Neglected Neighbors: Stories of Life in the Alleys, Tenements and Shanties by Charles Frederick Weller, Eugenia Winston Weller (1909)
"The latter is notable because the only water supply of the dwelling must be drawn
from a faucet which stands directly above the toilet bowl and is ..."
2. Microbiology: A Text-book of Microörganisms, General and Applied by Charles E. Marshall (1921)
"Where bed-pans or urinals are used and then emptied into such a toilet- bowl,
disinfection should be done of the hands of the attendant who empties the pan, ..."
3. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (1888)
"He sat there, riding a white china toilet bowl, beseeching the Almighty for a print.
Two young white men sat in a mansion in Harlem staring at a middle-aged ..."