am i miss understanding does it mean water toliet? its wierd..
2007-01-28 04:28:08 · 4 answers · asked by madina 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
First - perfume and toilet water are very different. Toiliet water is scented water, essentially. Perfume is a distilled scent, very powerful and usually expensive.
Second - Toilette - loosely translated toilet - does not refer to the porcelain fixture in the bathroom,but rather the process of preparing yourself to be seen in public. In the days of the French kings and queens, there were courtiers whose sole job was to help the king dress - and these were positions of great prestige.
Preparing your toilette was a process that could take hours - and in days when bathing was reserved to once or twice a year, the need for a scented water to help mute the body odors was really great. Thte last thing you would do, in preparing your toilette, was to sprinkle yourself liberally with eau de toilette - water of the toilette - and you were ready to go out in public.
Nothing to do with the crapper.
2007-01-28 04:35:23 · answer #1 · answered by Uncle John 6 · 69⤊ 4⤋
The process of getting dressed and ready for the day is "attending to ones Toliette" not the comode where you eleminate excess used foods.
2007-01-28 04:36:49 · answer #2 · answered by swamp elf 5 · 8⤊ 1⤋
I'm guessing that toilet water means something different to the French.
2007-01-28 04:34:14 · answer #3 · answered by hallucinatingcandles 4 · 2⤊ 8⤋
Its a slang saying. Like Faux pas. Which is literally False not.
Imagine if someone speaking french heard, wassup, or dude. They wouldn't get it either.
l'eau, means a substance that looks like water.
toliette, means a toilettry (shampoo, lotion, are all toilettries)
2007-01-28 04:37:10 · answer #4 · answered by Laura 3 · 7⤊ 9⤋