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noun

Toilet n.

A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or a dressing room.

A dressing table.

Act or mode of dressing, or that which is arranged in dressing; attire; dress; as, her toilet is perfect. (Written also toilette)

Toilet glass, a looking-glass for a toilet table or for a dressing room.

Toilet service, Toilet set, earthenware, glass, and other utensils for a dressing room.

Toilet table, a dressing table; a toilet. See def. 2 above.

To snake one's toilet, to dress one's self; especially, to dress one's self carefully.

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Etymology of 'Toilet'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Toilet" Quotes from Famous Books

... have got before me this morning, but this afternoon it will be my turn—mine and Mr Clare's, you roystering middies!" and the Captain popped down again to finish his toilet. ...

— Captain Mugford - Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors • W.H.G. Kingston

... down the child and made the change. She looked in the glass and was astonished at her beauty. She resolved to make her death toilet perfect. She took off her handkerchief turban and dressed her glossy wealth of hair "like white folks"; she added some odds and ends of rather lurid ribbon and a spray of atrocious artificial flowers; finally she threw over ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... woman, compelled to make part of her toilet in a railway waiting-room under the eyes of half a score of enemies, that is to say, of ten other women, arranges her tresses, purchased or natural, uses powder-puff and hare's foot if she choose, and turns away from the mirror armed for conquest; but an American similarly situated, ...

— In the Riding-School; Chats With Esmeralda • Theo. Stephenson Browne

... went to the steel mirror on the wall and looked long at the flushed, triumphant image. At length she started, like one awakening from a happy dream, and hurriedly coiled the thick, soft tresses about her head. Never before had she lingered so over a toilet, patting each lock into place, twisting her head from side to side like a peacock ...

— Riders of the Silences • John Frederick

... come into the courts by their inability or unwillingness to pay them. It is curious comment on women in a democracy that it should be possible to mention them in the same breath with Josephine, Empress of the French. Napoleon at the beginning of the Empire allowed Josephine $72,000 a year for her toilet; later he made it $90,000. But there was never a year she did not far outstrip the allowance. Masson declares that on an average she spent $220,000 a year, and the itemized accounts of the articles in her wardrobe ...

— The Business of Being a Woman • Ida M. Tarbell

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