See ladies' room on Wiktionary
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"roman": "žénskij tualét",
"sense": "lavatory intended for women — see also toilet",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "же́нский туале́т"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "lavatory intended for women — see also toilet",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "damtoalett"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "lavatory intended for women — see also toilet",
"word": "damernas"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "lavatory intended for women — see also toilet",
"word": "kadınlar tuvaleti"
}
],
"word": "ladies' room"
}
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"msg": "''A room belonging to or intende'[...]' gloss has examples we want to keep, but there are subglosses.",
"path": [
"ladies' room"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "ladies' room",
"trace": ""
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