toilette

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toi·lette

(twä-lĕt′)

1. The act or process of dressing or grooming oneself; toilet.

2. A person's dress or style of dress.

3. A gown or costume.

[French; see toilet.]

toilette

(twɑːˈlɛt; French twalɛt)

usually literary another word for toilet²

[C16: from French; see toilet]

toi•let

(ˈtɔɪ lɪt)

n.

1. a bathroom fixture consisting of a bowl, usu. with a hinged seat and lid, and a device for flushing with water, used for defecation and urination.

2. a bathroom or washroom; lavatory.

3. a dressing room, esp. one containing a bath.

4. the act or process of dressing or grooming oneself.

5. the dress or costume of a person.

6. Archaic. a dressing table.

Also, toilette (for defs. 6,8).

[1530–40; < French toilette small cloth, doily, dressing table =toile toil² + -ette -et]

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toilette - the act of dressing and preparing yourself; "he made his morning toilet and went to breakfast"

toilet

grooming, dressing - the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes

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When I reached the Wheel of Pleasure, I found Rosalind awaiting me in the coffee- room, looking fresh from a traveller's toilette, and with the welcome news that dinner was on the way.

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The toilette table was a simple table standing on four legs; there was nothing about it by which it could possibly be changed into a temporary hiding-place.

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I pay this particular compliment to Queequeg, because he treated me with so much civility and consideration, while I was guilty of great rudeness; staring at him from the bed, and watching all his toilette motions; for the time my curiosity getting the better of my breeding.

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She stood before him for a moment in silence, as though not unwilling that he should appreciate the soft splendour of her toilette.

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Having embraced her Anchor with great affection, Fanny took a bottle of sweet toilette water from the table, and called to her maid for a fine handkerchief.

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They halted for a short time to make their toilette, an operation as important with an Indian warrior as with a fashionable beauty.

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The handkerchief ought not to cost more than the rest of the toilette.

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On entering the small anteroom which was called a dressing-room, but which Arthur really used only to lounge and write in, he just cast his eyes on the writing-table, and saw that there were several letters and packets lying there; but he was in the uncomfortable dusty condition of a man who has had a long hurried journey, and he must really refresh himself by attending to his toilette a little, before he read his letters.

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Nor were they idle the while, for each one performed the simple offices of the toilette for the other.

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The whole city, not to be behind in this luxury of cleanliness, assumed its best toilette with the help of brushes, brooms, and water.

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I'm sure you look more charming in them than any one we shall see in the most elaborate dinner toilette.

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Osgood's inclination to remain with her niece gave them also a reason for staying to see the rustic beauty's toilette.