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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bidet
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But recently, acceptance of the bidet has been growing, according to makers of bath fixtures.
▪ I did need a few stitches, but frequent use of the bidet helped fast healing.
▪ In a promotional brochure, one company shows bidets in photographs of model rooms without directing specific attention to them.
▪ She shrugged, went over to the bidet, washed herself and inserted her tiny scrambler.
▪ The closest basin to a bidet in the United States in 1897, for instance, was a hip bath.
▪ There was a vogue for bidets in California some years ago but he thinks they are primarily symbolic as jacuzzis have become.
▪ We even had a portable bidet for Maurice Chevalier's safari.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bidet

Bidet \Bi*det"\, n. [F. bidet, perh. fr. Celtic; cr. Gael. bideach very little, diminutive, bidein a diminutive animal, W. bidan a weakly or sorry wretch.]

  1. A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage.
    --B. Jonson.

  2. A kind of bath tub for sitting baths; a sitz bath.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bidet

1620s, "small horse," from French bidet (16c.), of unknown etymology. Originally in French "a small horse, a pony," thus "a vessel on a low narrow stand, which can be bestridden for bathing purposes," a sense attested in English from 1766.

Wiktionary
bidet

n. 1 a low-mounted plumbing fixture or type of sink intended for washing the external genitalia and the anus 2 (context obsolete English) A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage.

WordNet
bidet

n. a basin for washing genitals and anal area

Wikipedia
Bidet

A bidet ( or ) is a plumbing fixture or type of sink intended for washing the genitalia, perineum, inner buttocks, and anus of the human body, and is typically installed in a bathroom. Lower-cost add-ons combining a toilet seat and "electronic bidet" are becoming increasingly popular as well. "Bidet" is a French loanword.

Usage examples of "bidet".

Drying in the sunlight beside her was the novel he had thrown into the bidet, its pages flowering into an elegant ruff.

At that moment she came out of the bathroom and he took her place at the bidet, only to hear his phone ringing.

The French hotel had a bidet, which Richard explained to me with the trace of a smirk after he caught me washing my feet in it.

Number 47 was on the fifth floor, a commonplace room with an iron bed, a washbasin, a bidet, a dilapidated armchair, and a chest of drawers.

Europe is the bidet, which is a bathroom appliance, usually located next to the toilet, that looks like a urinal lying on its back.

Eurohiking, our bodies ready to burst from within the frayed seams of our overworn garments washed irregularly in bidets spanning the continent.

What happened was that Terry hud goat up in the night tae dae a shite, but instead ay the bog, the pished-up cunt hud used this bidet thing they hud thaire.

On a table between the bidet and the bed was a box of tissues and a roll of paper towels.

At that moment she came out of the bathroom and he took her place at the bidet, only to hear his phone ringing.

The French hotel had a bidet, which Richard explained to me with the trace of a smirk after he caught me washing my feet in it.

He'd made his fortune selling baths, bidets and toilets, which lent him little by way of mystique.

There were waiting lists for baths, doorknobs, imported hardwoods, antiqued fireplaces, bidets, marble slabs.

But Jimmy says, 'Sorry, darling, this one's mine,' and all of a sudden Cleo sees her Grammy going down the bidet.

In his bathroom, he had found a bidet, and in a heavy bookcase by the bedside was a collection of leather-bound photo albums, the photographs portraying handsome men and women in their birthday suits performing what could only be described as sexual gymnastics.

Every citizen can now grow sex forms in his bidet: in the night of Talara felt his hard-on against my khaki pants as we shifted slots and I browned a strange Danish dog under the nudes of Sweden.