(now, historical, or, archaic) Personal grooming; the process of washing, dressing and arranging the hair. [from 17th c.]
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Against that short evening her toilet was consulted the whole day […] .
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1791, Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story, Oxford, published 2009, page 118:
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Come as you are, tarry not over your toilet.
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1913, Rabindranath Tagore, Come as you are..., Poetry Foundation, page 85:
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Three women got down and standing on the curb they made unabashed toilets, smoothing skirts and stockings, brushing one another's back, opening parcels and donning various finery.
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1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 111:
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Here, at night, a lonely but brilliantly neon-illuminated figure, I performed my toilet, watched incuriously by the Burmese seated at the tables of the tea-shops below.