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toilette
French · 1500s
"a little cloth, a dressing cloth"
literally a little cloth, originally the cloth covering a dressing table
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Stage 2 of 2
toilet
English · 1600s
"a fixture for the disposal of bodily waste"
broadened from the dressing routine to the room, and later the fixture itself
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