英语词汇vespasienne的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	vespasienne
词源	vespasienne. Roman emperor Vespasian (a.d. 9–79) taxed his people inordinately to build public urinals, improving the pissoirs even more by selling the urine collected in them to launderers, who used it for bleaching clothing. His obsession with public urinals led the witty French to name them vespasi- ennes after him. See crapper; fontage; furphy; money doesn’t stink; oliver; sacheverell; twiss.
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