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A half-mask, particularly those velvet half-masks fashionable in the 17th century as a means of protecting women's complexion from the sun.
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A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
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A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
Examples of loos in a Sentence
I can even remember one year cleaning the loos.
There are eleven maisons centrales, nine for men (Loos, Clairvaux, Beaulieu, Poissy, Melun, Fontevrault, Thouars, Riom and Nimes); two for women (Rennes and, Montpellier).
The Bavarian clergy invited Bishop Loos of the Jansenist Church in Holland, which for more than 150 years had existed independent of the Papacy and had adopted the name of "Old Catholic," to hold confirmations in Bavaria.
The temporary disabled loos erected on the field were also much appreciated.
Big Brother's Alex Sibley checks out the cleanest loos on the motorway at Moto.
News Join the Changing Places Consortium in campaigning for fully accessible loos in public places across the UK.
I squeezed in the odd overnighter, and the gents loos at school were turned into a rod store and changing room!
In May 1916, the Battalion, now with John as a member, was back at Loos and was occupying the redoubt.
My daughter had an absolute facination with loos She saw a toilet as an open sesame to the rest of a house or building.
In May 1916, the Battalion, now with John as a member, was back at Loos and was occupying the Redoubt.
In 2005, Rebecca Loos, Beckham's personal assistant, admitted to having an affair with him.
In 1200 a fair at Doncaster on the vigil and day of St James the Apostle was confirmed to Robert de Turnham, who held the manor in right of his wife, with the addition of an extra day, for which he had to give the king two palfreys worth loos.
The cathedral was built between 973 and loos; the gallery round the back of the apse and the crypt have plain cubical capitals of this period.
The farm of the borough was fixed at loos.
We had hot water and working flush loos for the first time in a week!