toilette
Noun

toilette (plural toilettes)

  1. Archaic form of toilet#English|toilet. in all senses related to dressing and personal grooming, but not a water closet
    • 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter I, in Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, OCLC 948783829 ↗, book I (Miss Brooke), 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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