Meaning & use
Privies
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Outdoor toilets, especially small outbuildings used before indoor plumbing became common.
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The old farmhouse still had two privies standing behind the barn.
Visitors to the historic village can see restored privies from the 1800s.
A note on using this word
Privies is also a legal term referring to people who share a mutual or successive legal interest in the same property or transaction.
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Another way to use it
2. noun
In law, persons having a mutual or successive legal interest in the same property or transaction.
The court held that the privies to the original contract were bound by its terms.
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