toilette
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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
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
Reserve seating, "inflight" movies, impeccable toilets, with toilette paper, paper...
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2016
After her toilette, the proud Madame had gone to the common room and imperiously demanded of a lowly soldier that he go and procure buttered rolls and fresh coffee for her and the children.
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
That Armande should have triumphed so completely over physical deficiencies was probably due, to some extent, to the perfection of her toilettes.
From Queens of the French Stage by H. Noel Williams
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 Reginald Wright Kauffman
