commode
noun/kəˈməʊd/
/kəˈməʊd/
- a piece of furniture that looks like a chair but has a toilet under the seat
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- a piece of furniture, especially an old or antique one, with drawers used for storing things in
Word Originmid 18th cent. (in sense (2)): from French, literally ‘convenient, suitable’, from Latin commodus. Sense (1) dates from the early 19th cent.
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