toilette

• It enraged them to hear that he spent hours on his own toilette, and starched his wife's fine ruffs as if he were her tire-woman. —  Heroes of Modern Europe
• The old lady had made her toilette, and her cat was purring on a cushion by her side Aunt Betsy, is it true that my father was decoyed back to Italy by the police How do I know that? —  The Eternal City
• What Alphonse Karr says of women and their toilette--that they regard every event in life as an occasion for a new dress--may certainly be paraphrased and applied to the Russians in connection with champagne. —  Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
• The Ashanti medal, however, was still there; indeed, he wore it round his neck even on the march, when his toilette was reduced to a waist-cloth and a billycock. —  To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative
• After the manner of his kind he had all his life soused his head in lime-water when making his savage toilette, and as a result his shock of black hair stood on end and bulged out like a crowded hayrick. —  Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates

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