The entries are as varied as the names we bestow: toilet, toilette, klo (in Germany), water closet, WC (and the Gallic counterparts double-v c or, in this impatient age, just VC).

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The water closet really makes a splash each has high-tech automated Toto toilets, extra-deep tubs, flat-screen televisions, towel warmers, heated floors and counters, de-fogging mirrors and, of course, a rain shower stocked with high-end toiletries.

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