eau de toilette

See also: Eau de Toilette

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French eau de toilette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌəʊ də twɑːˈlɛt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

eau de toilette (plural eau de toilettes or eaus de toilette or eaux de toilette)

1. (perfumery) A lightly scented perfume to freshen the skin, usually applied directly to the skin after bathing or shaving.

   Synonym: toilet water

   Coordinate terms: eau de Cologne, eau de parfum

   • 1987 October, Timothy Kalich, “Marketing: What's in a Smell?”, in The Atlantic‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 1 February 2023:

     The perfume market has always been a two-tiered one, with a relatively small number of buyers of small bottles of real perfume and eau de parfum that cost large amounts of money, and a larger number of buyers of somewhat larger bottles of cologne and eau de toilette that are considerably more affordable but not always cheap.

Translations

lightly scented perfume

• Belarusian: туале́тная вада́ f (tualjétnaja vadá)
• Bulgarian: тоале́тна вода́ f (toalétna vodá)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 淡香水 (taam⁵ hoeng¹ seoi²), 花露水 (faa¹ lou⁶ seoi²)

  Mandarin: 淡香水 (dànxiāngshuǐ), 花露水 (zh) (huālùshuǐ)

• Czech: toaletní voda f
• Dutch: eau de toilette (nl) m or f
• Estonian: tualettvesi
• Finnish: eau de toilette, toilettivesi
• French: eau de toilette (fr) f
• German: Eau de Toilette (de) f
• Japanese: オードトワレット (ja) (ōdotowaretto), オードトワレ (ja) (ōdotoware)
• Korean: 오드투왈렛 (odeutuwallet)
• Latvian: tualetes ūdens m
• Macedonian: тоале́тна вода f (toalétna voda)
• Malayalam: ഓ ദെ ത്വാലെത് (ō de tvāletŭ)
• Navajo: tó łikání halchiní
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: اُدوتویلِت, آبِ مُعَطَّر (âb-e mo'attar)

• Polish: woda toaletowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: água de toalete (pt) f
• Romanian: apă de toaletă f
• Russian: туале́тная вода́ (ru) f (tualétnaja vodá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тоалетна вода f

  Latin: toaletna voda f

• Slovak: toaletná voda f
• Slovene: toaletna vôdica f
• Spanish: eau de toilette f
• Ukrainian: туале́тна вода́ f (tualétna vodá)
• Veps: tualetvezi

See also

• cologne
• perfume
• toilette

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French eau de toilette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌoː də tʋɑˈlɛt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: eau de toi‧let‧te

Noun

eau de toilette m or f (plural eau de toilettes or eaux de toilette, diminutive eau de toiletteje n)

1. eau de toilette

French

Noun

eau de toilette f (plural eaux de toilette)

1. eau de toilette, toilet water

Descendants

• → Danish: eau de toilette
• → Dutch: eau de toilette
• → English: eau de toilette, → toilet water (calque)
• → German: Eau de Toilette