Origin: 1500-1600 French toilette cloth put around the shoulders while arranging the hair or shaving, toilette, toilet, from toile net, cloth
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS►flush the toilet
Someone forgot to flush the toilet (=make water go through the toilet to clean it).
1 [countable] a large bowl that you sit on to get rid of waste liquid or solid waste from your body: Someone forgot to flush the toilet (=make water go through the toilet to clean it). a toilet seat2go to the toilet to pass waste liquid or solid waste from your bodySYN go to the bathroom3[countable] British a restroom4[uncountable] old-fashioned formaltoilette [Origin: 1500–1600 French toilette cloth put around the shoulders while arranging the hair or shaving, toilette, toilet, from toile net, cloth]