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Could I use your powder room?
Could I use your powder room?
and Can I use your powder room?; May I use your powder room?; Where is your powder room?Euph. a polite way to ask to use the bathroom in someone's home. (Alludes to a woman powdering her nose. Sometimes used jocularly by men. See also powder one's nose.) Mary: Oh, Sally, could I use your powder room? Sally: Of course. It's just off the kitchen, on the left. Tom: Nice place you've got here. Uh, where is your powder room? Beth: At the top of the stairs.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
NoËLle | | no-EL (French) | French, Dutch |
Uffe | | - | Danish |
Cearbhall | | - | Irish |
Sokrates | | - | Ancient Greek |
Loes | | LOOS | Dutch |
Marika | | MAH-ree-kah (Finnish) | Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian, Greek, Finnish, Estonian |