purging place (English, noun)
expansion: purging place (plural purging places)
Senses:
glosses: A place where purging occurs
A body part where excess humors are expelled.
qualifier: premodern medicine
tags: obsolete
glosses: A place where purging occurs
A place where the body is purged of waste: a latrine; an outhouse; a lavatory.
tags: obsolete
topics: Christianity
glosses: A place where purging occurs
The place where the soul is purged of sin: Purgatory.
tags: archaic
Forms:
form: purging places
tags: plural