toilette

Borrowed from French toilette; more at toilet.

• Rhymes: -ɛt

toilette (plural toilettes)

1. Archaic form of toilet. (in all senses related to dressing and personal grooming, but not a water closet)
   • 1831, L E 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. , volume (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.

From toile (“cloth”) +‎ -ette.

• IPA^(key): /twa.lɛt/

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toilette f (plural toilettes)

1. toilet
2. (Belgium, North America) the toilet, lavatory

• 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).

• brosse de toilettes
• eau de toilette
• gant de toilette
• papier toilette
• trousse de toilette

• “toilette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Borrowed from French toilette. Doublet of teletta.

• IPA^(key): /twaˈlɛt/, /tu.aˈlɛt/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛt

toilette f (invariable)

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

• toeletti

Unadapted borrowing from French toilette.

toilette f (plural toilettes)

1. Alternative form of toalete (personal grooming)

toilette m (plural toilettes)

1. Alternative form of toalete (toilet, bathroom)