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Clues to modern usage of the term ‘commode’ may be found in Webster’s World Dictionary of the American Language and the Concise Oxford Dictionary. Historically the name given to a high head-dress worn by women in the late 17th century, a commode then was in turn, a chest of drawers, a chiffonier or movable low cupboard, a movable wash-stand and a piece of furniture containing a chamber pot. The term then became exclusively euphemistic for an armchair or box-shaped portable replacement for a WC.
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Rogers, P.J. (1982). The Design, Development and Evaluation of a Portable Commode. In: Redfern, S.J., Sisson, A.R., Walker, J.F., Walsh, P.A. (eds) Issues in Nursing Research. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06200-3_28
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