Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
toilettes invitées
English translation:
guest toilets
French term
United Kingdom
A Professional Service Handled With Care
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English
toilettes invitées
| 3 +6 | guests toilets |
Richard Hedger
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| 3 +3 | guest bathroom |
Estelle Demontrond-Box
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| 4 +1 | powder room or guest powder room |
lindaellen (X)
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| 3 +1 | guest cloakroom |
Tony M
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| 4 | guest restroom |
Yolanda Broad
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May 9, 2011 11:30: writeaway changed "Field" from "Law/Patents" to "Other" , "Field (write-in)" from "Purchase Offer" to "room (in house/hotel/apt etc)"
May 9, 2011 11:32: B D Finch changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
May 9, 2011 12:19: Stéphanie Soudais (X) changed "Term asked" from "toilettes invitees" to "toilettes invitées"
Non-PRO (3): Sarah Bessioud, silvester55, B D Finch
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Proposed translations
Switzerland
guests toilets
powder room or guest powder room
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Colin Rowe
: Certainly widely used, but I agree that it sounds very s(t)illy... particularly to UK ears!
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writeaway
: a more genteel way to say bathroom. but like bathroom, it's USese for toilet/WC
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Jean Lachaud
: That is the correct term in US English
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Australia
Qualified Translator & Published Writer
Native in: French (Variant: Standard-France)
Works in: English to French, French to English, French
guest bathroom
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Note added at 37 mins (2011-05-09 11:56:27 GMT)
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For UK occurences
http://www.housetohome.co.uk/bathroom/picture/georgian-guest...
http://www.ehow.co.uk/facts_5798910_house-guest-bathroom-eti...
http://www.housetohome.co.uk/bathroom/picture/suffolk-countr...
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Laura Bennett
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Merci Laura!
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writeaway
: for US English/I have to go to the bathroom is more US than UK. maybe it's drifting across the pond. How would you translate salle de bain? Especially if the guest toilet is separate from the actual bathroom ...
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I live in the UK and have heard this many times before!
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Sarah Bessioud
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Merci JdM!
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Colin Rowe
: For US yes, for UK no. May be widely heard in UK, but only in American TV program(me)s! // Still agree, but your link really does refer to bathrooms (as understood in UK) and shower rooms, and not just toilet rooms!
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http://www.astonmatthews.co.uk/accessories/range.asp?0,0,0,7... Thanks Colin!
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guest cloakroom
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Colin Rowe
: For a private house, this would certainly be a good UK solution.
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Thanks, Colin!
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writeaway
: UK version of bathroom/powder room. Why use such a localised term when guest toilet(s) is perfectly clear to all speakers of En?
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Because to me it implies there is a wash-basin, for example, too.
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cc in nyc
: Wow, I had no idea! And yet, there it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloakroom#UK
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Thanks, CC! Yes, bathroom for US but sounds odd for UK
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United States
Fren & Span to Eng, a ProZ Pro!
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English
guest restroom
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Sheila Wilson
: A mere 14k references on the web. I thought guests rested in the spare bedroom. // Hmm. Wiki equates it to a public toilet here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_toilet I don't know how accurate (or not) the article is.
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Interesting. When you just search for "restroom" Google, it comes up with 11,000,000 hits.
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