Avocado Suite

I’m not really sure if this is an actual thing or not. I encountered the phrase in a novel, and it was written as if it was an accepted colloquialism.

But I search, and “avocado suite” seems to refer to the avocado green bathroom that was in vogue some years ago. However, it’s not just a color-noun combination. I found a lot of pages that referred to the “avocado suite” in sort of…longing terms. Like, it’s a nostalgic thing we should all understand and remember.

For example:

For the first seven years of my life I bathed in the green tub and washed dirt from my fingernails over the green basin. I felt the chill of the green toilet seat under my cheeks every morning, as I propped up my feet on the trusty green footstool. When it came to bathroom duties, the avocado suite was all I knew.

Until one day I was told it was being replaced. And I couldn’t handle it.

So, on a superficial level, this is certainly simply a adjective and a noun. But I get the feeling that it represents something else on another level.

Why I Looked It Up

In The Lost Bookshop:

…she showed me the shared bathroom on my first night, replete with avocado suite.