pissoir

First attested in 1919. From French pissoir.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /piːˈswɑː/, /ˈpɪswɑː/

pissoir (plural pissoirs)

1. A public urinal typically found in European, especially French, streets.

   To tackle the problem of street urination, Parisian authorities introduced the pissoir

• 2005, Ed. Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised), Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• 1999, Ed. Jennifer Speake, The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English, Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• “Pissoir”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Incorporated, (Can we date this quote?)

From pisser +‎ -oir.

pissoir m (plural pissoirs)

1. (slang) bog, john(clarification of this definition is needed)
2. urinal

   Synonyms: pissotière, urinoir

• → Czech: pisoár
• → Estonian: pissuaar
• → Finnish: pisoaari
• → German: Pissoir
• → Polish: pisuar
• → Romanian: pisoar
• → Russian: писсуар (pissuar)
• → Slovene: pisoar
• → Turkish: pisuvar

• “pissoir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.