carsey

carsey
   a lavatory
   From the Italian casa, a house, and denned by Dr Johnson as 'A building unfurnished':
    'Mens resting Room' which he assumed was the carsey. (Follett, 1991)
   Also as carsy, karsey, karzey, and karzy.

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