V.C.

le V.C. (FR N-M) also »le W.C.« (»Double v« C.), abbreviation of the English words »water closet,« or toilet, phrase first used in 1775. In France, excretory and cleansing functions were traditionally separated, the toilet being all by itself in a narrow, closet-like space. The English term referred, at first, not to the room, but to predecessors of the modern flush toilet, which evolved from the time of Queen Elizabeth I (1533 – 1603) to the present. Victorian period toilet bowls, manufactured…