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
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
"I told Du Barry to keep you home," she says, while packing a small toilette box.
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
Her toilettes were described with journalistic realism in more than a single newspaper.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
All the men have brightly coloured flannel blazers and gaudy cammerbands, and the women carry many-flounced parasols by a ring at the ferrule end, and wear toilettes straight out of the "Queen."
From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions
