toilette


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toi·lette

 (twä-lĕt′)
n.
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)
n
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]
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.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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"You think too much of your 'toilette,' Adele: but you may have a flower." And I took a rose from a vase and fastened it in her sash.
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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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When the ladies were separating for the toilette. Her said to Elizabeth--
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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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"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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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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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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