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Toilet set

Toilet \Toi"let\, n. [F. toilette, dim. of toile cloth. See Toil a net.]

  1. A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or a dressing room.

  2. A dressing table.
    --Pope.

  3. Act or mode of dressing, or that which is arranged in dressing; attire; dress; as, her toilet is perfect.

    Toilet glass, a looking-glass for a toilet table or for a dressing room.

    Toilet service, Toilet set, earthenware, glass, and other utensils for a dressing room.

    Toilet table, a dressing table; a toilet. See def. 2 above.

    To snake one's toilet, to dress one's self; especially, to dress one's self carefully.

Usage examples of "toilet set".

There was a green and silver toilet set on the dressing table and three suitcases in the closet.

Centaine swept the silver frame of photographs off the bedside table into the bag, then opened the drawer and found her jewelbox and her travelling toilet set.

On the dresser there was a composition toilet set, neither cheap nor expensive, a comb with black hair in it, a tray of manicuring stuff, plenty of spilled powder--in the bathroom, nothing.

We learned that Miss Emily had been to the jeweler's and ordered a man's toilet set in silver, with the letters H.

I hear it costs him five G's to fix up Marky's bedroom alone, not counting the solid gold toilet set that he buys for her.

It was a hard bare masculine bedroom with a polished wood floor, a couple of small throw rugs in an Indian design, two straight chairs, a bureau in dark grained wood with a man's toilet set and two black candles in foot-high brass candlesticks.

He held up the heavy pitcher of white earthenware that made part of the toilet set.

The most elaborate tortoiseshell toilet set in Jamaica would not cost five pounds.