Waterloose

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  • Waterloo: a Belgian village near the site of the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815); FW 008.9 - FW 010.23 is, among other things, an account of the battle after Victor Hugo's description in Chapter 70 of his novel Les Misérables
  • water closet, loo → the outhouse in the backyard behind HCE's tavern
    • Ulysses 531.19: "Waterloo. Watercloset."
  • waterless → the Flood which ends FW is beginning to abate
  • watercourse → the name Waterloo is thought to derive from a Dutch word meaning watercourseriverrun