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.
Definition of Prosody. A literary technique, prosody is the study of meter, intonation and rhythm of a poetic work. It is a phonetic term that uses meter, rhythm, tempo, pitch and loudness in a speech for conveying information about the meanings and structure of an utterance. Syllabic Prosody â Syllabic prosody counts a fixed number of syllables in each line, while accent, tone and quantity play a secondary role. 2  Accentual Prosody â It measures only the accents or stresses in a line of verse, while the overall number of syllables may vary in a line.