(8) Today’s word is toilet.
At one point a toilet was called an arse-wisp. A toilette was a French word for a bag for clothes. In English that word morphed into “the process of getting dressed” (1680s). Then toilet started to mean “dressing room” (1820s). And when these got plumbing the toilet evolved into the toilets of today.
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