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
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
There was a hum and stir down the whole length of the place as the younger gentlemen of the Court made their toilettes.
From House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
I at once instructed a Bond Street dressmaker to make her four of the most elegant toilettes possible, discarding in toto the costume of the 16th century so far as "Violetta" was concerned.
From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 by James H. Mapleson
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