gentlemen's room noun3 •Any room intended for use by men.From the indenture... we learn that the house [sc. the Fortune Theater] had three tiers, consisting of boxes, rooms, and galleries; that there were "two-penny rooms," and "gentlemen's"... — 1843 •(historical) A waiting room in a railway station or other public building, often including a separate lavatory....Passenger House, containing ticket office, baggage room, ladies' room, gentlemen's room, water closet, say 50 feet by 20 feet... — 1856 •(euphemistic, old-fashioned) Synonym of men's room: a public lavatory intended for males.In each ladies' lavatory-room in the palace there were four pairs of these basins, and in each gentlemen's room three pairs and a range of five. — 1873 formsgentlemen's rooms
