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Chic Sale

[ chik seyl ]

noun

, Facetious.
  1. an outside privy.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Chic Sale1

From the pen name of Charles Partlow (1885–1936), American actor and author of The Specialist (1929), a humorous treatise on outhouse construction
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Example Sentences

In 1928, as a partner in the aptly named Satyr, another Hollywood bookshop, Rose spent 60 days in jail after being convicted of pirating Chic Sale’s salacious novel “The Specialist.”

In 1928, as a partner in the aptly named Satyr, another Hollywood bookshop, he spent 60 days in jail after being convicted of pirating Chic Sale’s salacious novel “The Specialist.”

It is getting so that you can tell a Southern farmer's politics by his "Chic Sale."

Not since its music critic called Liberace a "butcher" musician and "Chic Sale" humorist did the San Francisco Examiner get as many irate letters on a single subject.

American humorists going back from Chic Sale to Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Artemus Ward have all had fun with just such gags.

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