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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

... an hour of nine o'clock as we drove up before the Loomis House, where I alighted, and ran up to my rooms. I had scarcely more than made a hasty toilet, when Arthur came in. After telling me who had, during my absence, called to see me, and after attending to some trifling wants which I expressed, he shuffled his feet in a style that I had learned to recognize as indicating a desire to ...

— A Strange Discovery • Charles Romyn Dake

... connection with a certain affair, I wouldn't let him escape me at any sacrifice. I have already dispatched dragoons in his pursuit. At earliest dawn I shall expect you to head a detachment in his search. Meanwhile, sir, I should be grateful for an opportunity to repair my toilet. ...

— Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Love in '76 - An Incident of the Revolution • Oliver Bell Bunce

... for this event. Needless to say that in these arduous activities, Abramka Stiftik, the ladies' tailor, played a prominent role. He was the one man in Chmyrsk who had any understanding at all for the subtle art of the feminine toilet. Preparations had begun in his shop in August already. Within the last weeks his modest parlour—furnished with six shabby chairs placed about a round table, and a fly-specked mirror on the wall—the atmosphere heavy with a smell of onions ...

— Best Russian Short Stories • Various

... etc. A "you," cold and sharp and ironically respectful, cut like the blade of a knife through the heart of the miserable old bachelor. The "you" was a declaration of war. Instead of helping the poor man with his toilet, handing him what he wanted, forestalling his wishes, looking at him with the sort of admiration which all women know how to express, and which, in some cases, the coarser it is the better it pleases,—saying, for instance, "You look as fresh ...

— The Two Brothers • Honore de Balzac

... fell down upon his shoulders. He was dressed in the gayest Mexican style, but his clothing had seen long service, and was not quite as neat as Arthur would have liked to have seen it. It was plain that Pierre did not waste much time upon his toilet; but, after all, he ...

— Frank Among The Rancheros • Harry Castlemon

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