toilet
The origin and history of toilet.
Etymology
From French "toilette," a diminutive of "toile" ("cloth"), originally the cloth spread over a dressing table; the word later shifted to mean the grooming process itself, then euphemistically to the bathroom fixture, a shift that took hold in the US in the late 1800s.
Class of 1800
toilet first entered the language around 1800. Other words from the same year:
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