commode

Etymology

Borrowed from French commode (literally “convenient”). Doublet of comodo.

noun

  1. A low chest of drawers on short legs.
  2. A stand for a washbowl and jug.
  3. (historical, euphemistic) A chair containing a chamber pot.
  4. (euphemistic, US) A toilet.
  5. (historical) A kind of woman's headdress, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height.
    Now under high Commodes with Looks Erect, 1696, George Granville, The She-Gallants

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