comfort station

Noun

comfort station (plural comfort stations)

1. (US, euphemistic) A public lavatory.
   • Then I told my constituents of an elaboration of my plan: a network of comfort stations centering around the gazebo—a boon to johnless Sausalito.1966, Sally Stanford, chapter 14, in The Lady of the House: The Autobiography of Sally Stanford, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 244
   • From the Kierkegaard Room he lopingly careened through a red-carpeted hallway that had previously vouchsafed him a comfort station but this morning seemed all business, no M or W in sight, just salons and boutiques and the Ingmar Bergman Cinema.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

   Synonyms:

   public convenience, public toilet, bathroom, latrine, necessarium, toilet, toilet room, urinal, water closet, WC