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What is a pissoir?

What is a pissoir? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A public urinal typically found in European, especially French, streets.
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In 1864, as part of his modernisation of Paris, Georges-Eugene Haussmann introduced the pissoir.
Like him, the men were blind to me, taking turns at the pissoir.
Give them a pissoir, and then we can have more bathroom space for the women.
The pissoir, they said, has a chance of making it into the final plans.
Applause erupted when Gillian Gillett, a legislative aide to Supervisor Scott Wiener, suggested using some money to install a pissoir — an outdoor urinal.
The Duchamp Fountain attacked with a hammer last month at the Dada exhibition in Paris was not the original pissoir, but a hand-crafted facsimile.

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