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

[vic caddy <viccaddy_@_yahoo.co.uk>]

bob gillis wrote:
> 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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> Try Websters Dictionary 1974 Edition, Volume 1 A-G,  Page 213.  
> Bidet.  A vessel about the height of the seat of a chair that often 
> has fixtures for running water and is used especially for bathing the 
> external genitals and posterior parts of the body. 
Vic Caddy

Ex ELHS 895

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