toilette
Americannoun
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toilettes
plural
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
And so now the last part of my toilette is a couple of squirts of cologne, something that pre-virus I only bothered with before going out to an expensive restaurant dinner.
From Washington Post ● May 5, 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
In an attempt to compete with Beyonce and Britney Spears, Beck has decided to launch his own eau de toilette.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2016
"It's a concentrated perfume extract. I could dilute it into an eau de toilette."
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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
There was a hum and stir down the whole length of the place as the younger gentlemen of the Court made their toilettes.
From House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
Her whole time was devoted to the planning of new toilettes; her lengthiest visits were to her dressmaker.
From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds
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