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commode

/kuh-mohd/US // kəˈmoʊd //UK // (kəˈməʊd) //

卫生台,洗洗台,洗洗台台面,洗洗台台

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a low cabinet or similar piece of furniture, often highly ornamental, containing drawers or shelves.
    • : a stand or cupboard containing a chamber pot or washbasin.
    • : toilet.
    • : a portable toilet, especially one on a chairlike frame with wheels, as for an invalid.
    • : an elaborate headdress consisting chiefly of a high framework decorated with lace, ribbons, etc., worn perched on top of the hair by women in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

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Examples

  • Beginning to walk, he tumbles over another man’s couch, changes course to collide with someone’s commode, then butts against a worktable that can’t be disturbed.

  • In that relationship, the lower-class king of his dingy domain is enthroned atop a commode and uses a toilet brush as a scepter.

  • Houston had raised suddenly, was staring in the direction of an old commode in the corner.

  • The commode shows as well as anything the marked change which took place in the styles under the Empire.

  • The ‘commode’ is the wire frame over which the curls are arranged, piled up in high masses over the forehead.

  • She caught sight of herself in an old mirror, which stood upon a commode.

  • In 1691 we find advertised in the Livre Commode of Paris a portable coffee-making outfit to fit the pocket.