gentlemen's rooms

Noun

gentlemen's room (plural gentlemen's rooms)

1. Any room intended for use by men, particularly
   • From the indenture... we learn that the house [sc. the Fortune Theater] had three tiers, consisting of boxes, rooms, and galleries; that there were "two-penny rooms," and "gentlemen's"...1843, J. Saunders, London, Vol. V, page 278
2. (historical) A waiting room in a railway station or other public building, often including a separate lavatory.
   • ...Passenger House, containing ticket office, baggage room, ladies' room, gentlemen's room, water closet, say 50 feet by 20 feet...1856, Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, volume 14, number 1, page 71
3. (dated, euphemistic) Synonym of men's room: a public lavatory intended for males.
   • In each ladies' lavatory-room in the palace there were four pairs of these basins, and in each gentlemen's room three pairs and a range of five.1873 July 16, William P. Blake, "Report... upon the Organization, Administration, and Results of the Vienna International Exhibition, 1873", §xi

   Synonyms:

   men's room, bathroom