Antes del fin del año me había arreglado con Rosa Cabarcas para dejar en el cuarto el abanico eléctrico, los recursos del tocador y lo que siguiera llevando en el futuro para hacerlo vivible (Garcia Marquez, Memories of my melancholy whores).
I have always had a hard time discerning when toilet (English word) means WC and when dressing (makeup) table. Google Translate gives "dressing table" for Spanish "tocador". The English translation for the above paragraph (Grossman) is as follows:
overheated the polemic, and made nostalgia popular. Before the end of the year I had arranged with Rosa Cabarcas to leave in the room the electric fan, the toilet articles, and whatever else I might bring in the future to make it livable.
where the translator has translated "los recursos del tocador" as toilet articles. In short, my question is what do Spanish mean by saying tocador. Do they mean the dressing table or lavatory? Just in case, where I live people almost always use toilet (pronounced towalett) to mean bathroom (lavatory).