toilet watern. [after French eau de toilette (see eau de toiletten. at eaun. f)] a dilute form of perfume, esp. one largely alcoholic in content used as a skin freshener; eau de toilette.
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1772 tr. P.-J. Buc'hoz Toilet of Flora 68 (heading) Nosegay or Toilet Water.
1857 C. DickensLittle Dorritii. xiv. 442 A bottle of sweet toilette water.
1989 A. TanJoy Luck Club 92 A less greedy girl..received a glass vial of lavender toilet water.