| 单词 | to make one's toilet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make one's toilet a. Frequently in form toilette. The action or process of washing, dressing, or arranging the hair. Frequently in to make one's toilet. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > [noun] > in specific way > dressing and washing or grooming toilet1684 toileting1793 toiletry1851 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] lotiona1513 ablution1664 toilet1684 washing1896 1684 tr. 'Le Sieur Combes' Hist. Explic. Versailles 32 She was given to understand, being at her Toilette, of the death of her Husband. 1712 A. Pope Rape of Locke i, in Misc. Poems 360 The long Labours of the Toilette cease. 1726 J. Swift Cadenus & Vanessa 7 Every Trifle that employs The out or inside of their Heads, Between their Toylets and their Beds. 1777 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. 259 Mrs Wall was still at her Toilette! 1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall I. 62 She actually spent an hour longer at her toilette, and made her appearance with her hair uncommonly frizzed and powdered. 1835 C. Colton Four Yrs. in Great Brit. II. 311 The wife of a Winnebago chief..came from making her toilet over the mirror-surface of Fox River. 1850 W. Wordsworth Prelude vii. 552 There have I seen a comely Bachelor Fresh from a toilette of two hours. 1890 G. Gissing Emancipated I. i. iii. 83 But when at length he appeared at the dinner-table, once more fresh from his toilet, then did a gleam of animation transform his countenance. 1925 W. de la Mare Broomsticks 122 Miss Chauncey proceeded to make her toilet for the night. 1939 T. S. Eliot Old Possum's Bk. Pract. Cats 20 They make their toilette and take their repose. 1991 Boston Globe 1 Sept. (Mag.) 30/3 For fans of the long, leisurely toilette, Nuts About Beauty is a little piece of heaven. 2000 T. Tierney Tudor & Elizabethan Fashions 37 Here is an Elizabethan lady at her toilet, shown wearing a floral embroidered silk chemise under her boned corset. < as lemmas |
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