Re: (erielack) Re: Antique Rail-Car BIDET on EBAY

[bob gillis <robertgillis_@_verizon.net>]

toddsyr wrote:
> Early version of the toilet. A French word too.
>   

A bidet is not a toilet. and the slang loo is AIR British not French..

And surprisingly it is is not in either of my 30 year old  old English 
dictionaries.

From  Wikpedia:

A *bidet* is a low-mounted plumbing fixture 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumbing_fixture> or type of sink 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sink> intended for washing 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washing> the external genitalia 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genitalia> and the anus 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anus>. A French 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language> word originally.

And I doubt that the fixture on E-Bay is a bidet.

bob gillis

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