toilette
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of toilette
C16: from French; see toilet
Example Sentences
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In “Enchanted Escape,” we see her ostentatiously unadorned Sèvres porcelain plates and silverware for the royal toilette, a pink neoclassical armchair for resting after doing very little.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
For years the stuff I’ve worn has been Marinella 287, a freshly citric, almost barbershop eau de toilette produced by the underrated Neapolitan haberdashers of the same name.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2020
Which is why I couldn’t figure out why she told us to put late assignments in her boîte de toilette, or “toilet box.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2020
The camera stands petrified by his toilette: his zesty dental flossing and dorky nasal dilators, the creams he gobs on his soft feet and disappointing pate.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 9, 2018
"One of my royal inventors made these for me. Remember when you first came to my toilette ritual—on my birthday—and I handed out jewelry?"
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
The second reel has a stationary camera positioned inside the beach house bathroom watching Sugar and America’s character make their toilettes.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
In place of the gorgeous toilettes and magnificent uniforms worn in the Tsar's time, men and women came in street dress, a few in evening clothes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sure, but this gets at an essential problem: while women have a long history of elaborate toilettes, men are still getting the hang of it.
From Time Magazine Archive
The toilettes of the ladies, for which Cincinnati is so famous, were most elegant.
From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 by Mapleson, James H.
"Did you ever think of the irony of these toilettes de demi-mondaine?" asked Radwalader, looking from one to another of the superb gowns at the neighbouring tables.
From The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel by Carryl, Guy Wetmore
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