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The tiny bottles that make airport security pretend you're a chemist.
means The small personal-care items — soap, toothpaste, shampoo, deodorant and the like — you pack for washing and grooming on the go.
from Traces back to French toilette, the 'little cloth' (toile) laid over a dressing table, which came to mean the whole ritual of washing, dressing, and primping at it. By the 1700s 'toilet' meant the grooming process itself, and 'toiletries' emerged as the catch-all noun for the lotions, powders, and brushes used in it — the cloth that started it all long since forgotten under the bottles.
- rule origin
- 3-1-1 liquid rule born from 2006 UK bomb plot
- etymology
- from toilette, French for little cloth
- travel size tax
- same product, smaller bottle, higher price per ounce