{"id":5801,"date":"2011-06-27T03:16:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T10:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=5801"},"modified":"2011-11-08T21:42:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T05:42:43","slug":"where-the-word-toilet-comes-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/where-the-word-toilet-comes-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the Word &#8220;Toilet&#8221; Comes From"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/where-toilet-comes-from.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5802\" title=\"where-toilet-comes-from\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/where-toilet-comes-from.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/where-toilet-comes-from.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/where-toilet-comes-from-340x334.jpg 340w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/where-toilet-comes-from-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p>The term \u201ctoilet\u201d itself comes from the French \u201ctoilette\u201d, which meant \u201cdressing room\u201d.\u00a0 This \u201ctoilette\u201d in turn derived from the French \u201ctoile\u201d, meaning \u201ccloth\u201d; specifically, referring to the cloth draped over someone\u2019s shoulders while their hair was being groomed.\u00a0 During the 17th century, the toilet was simply the process of getting dressed, fixing your hair, and applying make-up and the like, more or less grooming one\u2019s self.\u00a0 This gradually began to refer to the items around where someone was groomed, such as the table, powder bottles, and other items.\u00a0 Around the 1800s in America, this term began being used to refer to both the room itself where people got dressed and ready for the day, as well as the device itself now most commonly known as the toilet.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Why the Toilet is sometimes called a john\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/why-the-toilet-is-sometimes-called-a-john\/\" target=\"_self\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why the Toilet is Sometimes Called a John<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## The term \u201ctoilet\u201d itself comes from the French \u201ctoilette\u201d, which meant \u201cdressing room\u201d.\u00a0 This \u201ctoilette\u201d in turn derived from the French \u201ctoile\u201d, meaning \u201ccloth\u201d; specifically, referring to the cloth draped over someone\u2019s shoulders while their hair was being groomed.\u00a0 During the 17th century, the toilet was simply the process of getting dressed, fixing your hair, and applying make-up and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1037],"class_list":["post-5801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-etymology-toilet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6934,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5801\/revisions\/6934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}