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toilette

[twah-let, toi-, twa-let] / twɑˈlɛt, tɔɪ-, twaˈlɛt /


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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

Success By Trump is an eau de toilette that “captures the spirit of the driven man.”

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 26, 2017

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

The details of a proper toilette ritual for a queen and princess took weeks and weeks of studying and endless days of exams from Du Barry.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

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

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

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 Louis Couperus

Vengeance could fearlessly be taken upon her for always having handsomer toilettes, giving better dinners, attracting more admirers--and being allowed to do unpunished what would be unpardonable in others.

From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern


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