[f. prec. sb.] a. intr. To perform one’s toilet, to wash and attire oneself. b. trans. To furnish with a toilet; to dress, attire.
1840. Haliburton, Letter Bag, i. 7. Rose and toileted, went on deck.
1850. ‘Peter Crook,’ War of Hats, 52. A Guy Fawkes figure toiletted and chaired.
1893. Leland, Mem., II. 177. As soon as I had toiletted and gone below.
Hence Toileted ppl. a., dressed, costumed, garbed. Chiefly as second element.
1875. Bret Harte, John Oakhurst, Wks. 1880, III. 120. And then the long hotel piazza came in view, efflorescent with the full-toileted fair.
1882. Annie Edwardes, Ballroom Repentance, I. 3. There wasn’t a well toiletted woman there.
