toilette

IPA: tˈɔɪɫʌt

Archaic form of toilet. (in all senses related to dressing and personal grooming, but not a water closet) [(UK, Australia) A room or enclosed area containing a fixture used for urination and defecation (i.e. a toilet (sense 2)): a bathroom or water closet.]

Examples of "toilette" in Sentences

An indispensable feature of the toilette is the so-called
Happiness is the poetry of woman, as the toilette is her tinsel.
Mademoiselle Mars presides also over her toilette, which is always appropriate and becoming.
Originally, a toilette was a dressing table and all its accoutrements, including a toile covering that hung to the floor.
He added that "her toilette is rich but bizarre, and recalls the dress of Guercini's sibyls" with their loosely fitting, shoulder-baring costumes, again reminiscent of Sappho and the Grecian-draped Emma Hamilton (qtd. in Fraser,
A simple robe of _organdie_, with long sleeves, a _canezou_ of net, a light scarf, and a pretty _chapeau_ of _paille de riz_, form this becoming toilette, which is considered a suitable one for all theatres, except the Opera, where ladies go in a richer dress.
With a shrill little laugh, the lady kissed her dear friend affectionately -- and if the caress was not returned with very great fervour, it may be presumed that this coldness was due more to the unlovely impression created by the night 'toilette' of the Ever -
Her body was modestly invested in a thin pattern of tattoo, and a gauze-work of oil and camwood; the rest of the toilette was a dwarf pigeon-tail of fan - palm, like that of the men, and a manner of apron, white beads, and tree bark, greasy and reddened: the latter was tucked under and over the five lines of cowries, which acted as cestus to the portly middle, "big as a budget."