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Years ago people used to have to go outside to the "outhouse" to go to the toilet. It was little more than a small closet.
When this moved inside the house they used the same basic design, so it was called a water closet.
Also, during this time, some people who couldn't, or didn't want to go outside in the middle of the night, kept what was called a chamber pot under their bed, or in a separate wardrobe closet, in their bedroom chamber. They also kept a basin & a pitcher of water on the bedside table to wash up & to flush out the chamber pot.
They got the name "water closet" from the room where toilets where originally located- basically a small room (like a closet) with a toilet.
water closet.
once i was told that it's Water Cabinet,but i don't remember why.
1880s: Thomas Crapper's plumbing company built flush toilets of Giblin's design. After the company received a royal warrant, Crapper's name became synonymous with flush toilets. Although he was not the original inventor, Crapper popularized the siphon system for emptying the tank, replacing the earlier floating valve system which was prone to leaks. Some of Crapper's designs were made by Thomas Twyford. The similarity between Crapper's name and the much older word crap is merely a coincidence.
water closet (WC)
A room or booth containing a toilet and often a washbowl.
English idiom
WC = Water Closet
A flushing toilet or water closet (WC) is a toilet that disposes of the waste matter by using water to flush it through a drainpipe to another location.
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