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 years the stuff I’ve worn has been Marinella 287, a freshly citric, almost barbershop eau de toilette produced by the underrated Neapolitan haberdashers of the same name.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2020

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

Bottles of rye, purgative waters and eaux for every conceivable toilette made a companionable click in his worn carpet bag.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison