toilette

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See also: Toilette and toiletté

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French toilette; more at toilet.

Pronunciation

Noun

toilette (plural toilettes)

  1. Archaic form of toilet. (in all senses related to dressing and personal grooming, but not a water closet)
    • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIII, in Romance and Reality. , volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 291:
      No such very great degree of genius can be displayed in the rest of the toilette. The dress has been chosen—it fits you à ravir—it has simply to be put on with mathematical accuracy: but the bonnet is the triumph of taste,—you must exert your intellect,—your destiny is in your own hands.
    • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in The History of Pendennis. , volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
      He was elaborately attired. He would ogle the ladies who came to lionise the university, and passed before him on the arms of happy gownsmen, and give his opinion upon their personal charms, or their toilettes, with the gravity of a critic whose experience entitled him to speak with authority.
    • 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter I, in Middlemarch , volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, page 25:
      It is so painful in you, Celia, that you will look at human beings as if they were merely animals with a toilette, and never see the great soul in a man's face.

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French

Etymology

From toile (“cloth”) +‎ -ette.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /twa.lɛt/
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Noun

toilette f (plural toilettes)

  1. toilet
  2. (Belgium, Canada) the toilet, lavatory

Usage notes

  • In Belgium and Canada the word for "toilet/lavatory" can be singular (la toilette) while in the rest of the world the noun is only plural (les toilettes).

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French toilette.

Pronunciation

Noun

toilette f (invariable)

  1. toilet (all senses)
  2. makeup
  3. dressing table

References

  1. ^ toilette in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French toilette.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

toilette f (plural toilettes)

  1. Alternative form of toalete (personal grooming)

Noun

toilette m (plural toilettes)

  1. Alternative form of toalete (toilet, bathroom)
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