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Noun: earth-closet
  1. An outdoor building with an (often primitive) toilet
    "The old cabin had no indoor plumbing, just an earth-closet in the back";
    - outhouse, privy, jakes [archaic], biffy [N. Amer, informal]

Derived forms: earth-closets

Type of: outbuilding

Encyclopedia: Earth-closet