toilette

Example Sentences

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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

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

"I told Du Barry to keep you home," she says, while packing a small toilette box.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton