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

For early modern Europe, as in India today, perfume had many functions, from medical to religious, that went well beyond its use as an expression of an individual’s taste, personality and toilette.

From New York Times • May 10, 2021

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

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

From The New Yorker • Jan. 26, 2017

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