: a bathroom fixture used especially for bathing the external genitals and the anal region
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The photographs show a bidet in one bathroom, a fancy Japanese toilet in another.
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Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 23 Dec. 2025
There are plenty of affordable bidet attachments on the market that can be installed in just a few minutes.
—Cody Godwin, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025
Does the bathroom have a bidet?
—Blane Bachelor, Robb Report, 13 Nov. 2025
Beside one of those blandly obscene bidets.
—Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
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Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 23 Dec. 2025
There are plenty of affordable bidet attachments on the market that can be installed in just a few minutes.
—Cody Godwin, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025
Does the bathroom have a bidet?
—Blane Bachelor, Robb Report, 13 Nov. 2025
Beside one of those blandly obscene bidets.
—Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
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“Bidet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bidet. Accessed 6 Jan. 2026.
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bidet
noun
bi·det
bi-ˈdā 
: a bathroom fixture about the height of the seat of a chair used especially for bathing the external genitals and the anal region
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