" The French word for dressing table, "toilette, " he added, "actually came from the word 'toile, ' which means cloth.

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"I had a horrid kidney-shaped dressing table covered in toile, " she said.

WSJ: The Un-Vain Vanity Table

No strange cars in the driveway, and my wife at her dressing table, not quite naked in her negligible concession to winter.

NEWYORKER: Wakefield

It got me thinking: Why not assemble a stripped-down, tomboy vanity by pairing this mirror with a low-key desk or dressing table a solution that wouldn't flood our bedroom with estrogen?

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Once, through the grimy panes of an upstairs window, the younger brother, from his ladder, saw the woman crouched over a dressing table, her head on her arms as if she slept, or wept.

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Now, Ms. Wade has set up a more subdued or "butch, " as she calls it, dressing table a '50s American desk paired with a 19th century mirror in the bedroom she shares with her husband and urges her customers to similarly mix periods.

WSJ: The Un-Vain Vanity Table

One day, not long after she had endured yet another session under the surgeon's knife, he took a mirror from her dressing table and thrust it in front of her face to reflect the livid scars and the bruising under her eyes.

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On the table in front of the two young men in the photo was a chicken dinner, ranch dressing and a jug of orange juice.

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