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
"The parcel looked normal but after opening it, I was shocked to find a tin of dog food and some Eau de toilette instead of the phone I had ordered."
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2023
Second place receives two packaged bottles of Flower of Story eau de toilette spray.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2020
Success By Trump is an eau de toilette that “captures the spirit of the driven man.”
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 26, 2017
Madame Babushkinov was off attending to her toilette, with a guard stationed outside the bath to ensure her complete privacy.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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
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
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
About him swept the broad curve of boxes that has been called "The Diamond Horseshoe," filled with wonderful toilettes and beautiful women, but Stainton did not see these.
From Running Sands by Kauffman, Reginald Wright
So she stood, blonde: blonde and black; a little sombre amid the warmth and light of other toilettes; and, for unique relief, two diamonds in her ears, like dewdrops.
From Ecstasy: A Study of Happiness A Novel by Couperus, Louis
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