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The bathroom fixture America skipped, then reinvented badly as a $400 toilet seat.
means A low basin or fixture designed for washing the genitals and backside after using the toilet.
from French, where "bidet" originally meant a small pony or nag — the fixture earned the name because using it means straddling it like riding a little horse. The word entered French in the 1600s for the pony sense before being borrowed for the bathroom fixture in the 1700s, and English simply absorbed the French term whole, pony joke included.
- origin
- French for little pony, as you straddle it
- adoption
- Standard in Italy, Japan, rare in US
- water use
- Uses pint of water vs forests of paper
- celebrity fan
- Napoleon reportedly traveled with his own