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

"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

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

The camera stands petrified by his toilette: his zesty dental flossing and dorky nasal dilators, the creams he gobs on his soft feet and disappointing pate.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 9, 2018

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