: a public urinal usually located on the street in some European countries
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Every prime minister comes into office promising to reform the Lords only to end up treating it as a patronage pissoir.—The Economist, 8 Aug. 2020
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French, from Middle French, from pisser to urinate, from Old French pisser, pissier
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