Meaning & use
Pissoir
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A public urinal, typically a street structure providing partial screening, historically common in European cities.
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The old iron pissoir on the corner had stood there since the 19th century.
Photographs of Parisian pissoirs capture a vanished piece of the city's street furniture.
A note on using this word
Borrowed from French, the word became internationally known partly through Marcel Duchamp's controversial 1917 artwork "Fountain," a urinal presented as sculpture.
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urinal
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