toilette

See also: Toilette and toiletté

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French toilette; more at toilet.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

toilette (plural toilettes)

1. Archaic form of 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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French

Etymology

toile (“cloth”) +‎ -ette

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twa.lɛt/

• Audio

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Noun

toilette f (plural toilettes)

1. toilet (act of cleaning oneself)
2. (Belgium) the toilet, lavatory

Usage notes

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

Further reading

• “toilette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French toilette.

Noun

toilette f (invariable)

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

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• toalete, toilete

Etymology

Borrowed from French toilette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to.a.ˈlɛ.t(ʃ)i/
• Hyphenation: to‧a‧le‧te
• Rhymes: -ɛt(ʃ)i

Noun

toilette f (plural toilettes)

1. toilet (personal grooming)

Noun

toilette m (plural toilettes)

1. toilet; lavatory; bathroom

Synonyms

• lavabo, banheiro, casa de banho