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tela
Latin · ancient
"web, cloth"
from texere 'to weave' - a word for woven cloth
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toile
French · medieval
"cloth, linen"
kept the sense of cloth or fabric
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toilette
French · 1500s
"a dressing-table cloth; the act of grooming"
a diminutive of toile, first for a cloth cover on a dressing table, then for the act of dressing itself
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toilette
English · 1530s-1819
"the process of washing and dressing"
entered for a cloth wrapper, then widened through 'act of dressing' to a dressing room, and eventually a bathroom
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