gentlemen

Etymology

noun

  1. plural of gentleman

noun

  1. Alternative form of gentlemen's: a men's room, a lavatory intended for use by men.
    "You go and leave them in the Gentlemen." "Leave 'em in the lavatory?" 1929, Henry Vincent Yorke as "Henry Green", Living, Ch. xviii, p. 213
    There are quays there and lamps and some squares of grass; a ladies and gentlemen, and a cinema. 1941, Joyce Cary, chapter XLIV, in Herself Surprised, page 108

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