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toi⋅let

[toi-lit]
–noun
1. a bathroom fixture consisting of a bowl, usually with a detachable, hinged seat and lid, and a device for flushing with water, used for defecation and urination.
2. a lavatory.
3. a bathroom.
4. toilet bowl.
5. a dressing room, esp. one containing a bath.
6. the act or process of dressing or grooming oneself, including bathing and arranging the hair: to make one's toilet; busy at her toilet.
7. toilet set.
8. the dress or costume of a person; any particular costume: toilet of white silk.
9. Surgery. the cleansing of a part after childbirth or a wound after an operation.
10. Archaic. dressing table.
11. go down (or in) the toilet, to become worthless or profitless; be doomed: The team's entire season went down the toilet.
Also, toilette (for defs. 6, 8).


Origin:
1530–40; < F toilette small cloth, doily, dressing table, equiv. to toile toil 2 + -ette -et
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toi·let   (toi'lĭt)   
n.  
    1. A fixture for defecation and urination, consisting of a bowl fitted with a hinged seat and connected to a waste pipe and a flushing apparatus; a privy.

    2. A room or booth containing such a fixture.

  1. The act or process of dressing or grooming oneself.

  2. Dress; attire; costume.

  3. The cleansing of a body area as part of a surgical or medical procedure.

  4. Archaic A dressing table.


[French toilette, clothes bag, from Old French tellette, diminutive of teile, cloth; see toil2.]
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: toi·let
Pronunciation: 'toi-l&t
Function: noun
: cleansing in preparation for or in association with a medical or surgical proceduretoilet>
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