TOILETTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does toilette mean? 

• TOILETTE (noun)
  The noun TOILETTE has 1 sense:

1. the act of dressing and preparing yourself

  Familiarity information: TOILETTE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOILETTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of dressing and preparing yourself

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

toilet; toilette

Context example:

he made his morning toilet and went to breakfast

Hypernyms ("toilette" is a kind of...):

dressing; grooming (the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes)

 Context examples 

"Elles changent de toilettes," said Adele; who, listening attentively, had followed every movement; and she sighed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

One came from her books, and the other from her toilette.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

At length, however, having slipped one arm into her gown, her toilette seemed so nearly finished that the impatience of her curiosity might safely be indulged.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Tarlatan and tulle were cheap at Nice, so she enveloped herself in them on such occasions, and following the sensible English fashion of simple dress for young girls, got up charming little toilettes with fresh flowers, a few trinkets, and all manner of dainty devices, which were both inexpensive and effective.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Having laid in the materials for a bowl of punch, to be compounded by Mr. Micawber; having provided a bottle of lavender-water, two wax-candles, a paper of mixed pins, and a pincushion, to assist Mrs. Micawber in her toilette at my dressing-table; having also caused the fire in my bedroom to be lighted for Mrs. Micawber's convenience; and having laid the cloth with my own hands, I awaited the result with composure.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"You think too much of your 'toilette,' Adele: but you may have a flower."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When the ladies were separating for the toilette, he said to Elizabeth—Do not make yourself uneasy, my dear cousin, about your apparel.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Not tables, toilettes, wardrobes, or drawers, but on one side perhaps the remains of a broken lute, on the other a ponderous chest which no efforts can open, and over the fireplace the portrait of some handsome warrior, whose features will so incomprehensibly strike you, that you will not be able to withdraw your eyes from it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She would have Sophie to look over all her "toilettes," as she called frocks; to furbish up any that were "passees," and to air and arrange the new.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This additional ceremony seemed somewhat stately; however, I repaired to my room, and, with Mrs. Fairfax's aid, replaced my black stuff dress by one of black silk; the best and the only additional one I had, except one of light grey, which, in my Lowood notions of the toilette, I thought too fine to be worn, except on first-rate occasions.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)