toilet tidy

noun

A container used to organise items used for applying makeup, dressing etc., or (in later uses) for organising items in a toilet (WC).

First used 19th c.
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Meanings

nountoilet tidy (plural toilet tidies)

plural toilet tidies

  1. archaicA container used to organise items used for applying makeup, dressing etc., or (in later uses) for organising items in a toilet (WC).First known use 19th c.

    She burned the last inch of the cigarette in the grate, wrapped with combings from the toilet-tidy in a screw of paper.

    1916, Dorothy Richardson, Backwater
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