chic sale n.
(US) a privy, an outside lavatory.
[ | ![]() | Specialist 6: There’s Chic Sale, Doc Sale’s boy / From Urbana, Illinoy. [Ibid.] 11: You are face to face with the champion privy builder of Sangamon County.]. |
![]() | Here Is Your War (1945) 78: Doctors, nurses, everyone but the patients, washed outdoors in cold water, and went to a Chic Sale with a canvas wall around it. | |
![]() | Crazy in Berlin 16: An electric-pencil sketch of a pickaninny sitting in a Chic Sale. | |
![]() | Why Are We in Vietnam? (1970) 12: They used rat paper for tar paper on the Chic Sale. | |
![]() | Blinky 149: Chick Sales [DARE]. | |
![]() | (ref. to 1917–18) Make the Kaiser Dance 109: Then he’d casually stroll over to this Chic Sales close to a hundred yards away. | |
![]() | Good Words 314: Chic Sale [...] An outhouse. | |
![]() | (con. 1930s) | Leaves From A Farm Boy’s Diary n.p.: In most farm homes in our area, and even in small towns, the toilet was invariably located back of the house [...] It was almost never referred to as a toilet, but rather by such euphemisms as ‘throne,’ ‘Chic Sale,’ ‘outhouse,’ etc.