A toilette in French means in an old fashion way, your attire and prettying up. Perfume being an important part of a good âtoiletteâ, you have some water dedicated to prettying up (faire sa toilette). So âeau de toiletteâ is a type of water (perfume) dedicated to be more beautiful.
Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  prosaic(Adjective) Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose. The tenor of Eliot's prosaic work differs greatly from that of his poetry. 2  prosaic(Adjective) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
Prose is so-called ordinary writing â made up of sentences and paragraphs, without any metrical (or rhyming) structure. If you write, I walked about all alone over the hillsides, that's prose. If you say, I wondered lonely as a cloud/that floats on high o'er vales and hills that's poetry. See the difference? (Let's not get into prose poetry!) From prose we get the term prosaic, meaning ordinary or commonplace, or lacking the specially delicacy and beauty of its supposed opposite â poetry.