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bathing-machine
[ bey-thing-muh-sheen ]
noun
- a small bathhouse on wheels formerly used as a dressing room and in which bathers could also be transported from the beach to the water.
bathing machine
/ ˈbeɪðɪŋ /
noun
- a small hut, on wheels so that it could be pulled to the sea, used in the 18th and 19th centuries for bathers to change their clothes
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bathing-machine1
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Example Sentences
Barrett eventually lured Maitland into deep water, long past the bathing machine of adieu forevermore, as he called it.
She could just discern the outline of a little house, not unlike a bathing-machine without wheels.
There is some question as to what the term “bathing machine” describes.
Tripper—none too clean in appearance—charters bathing machine.
People wait half the morning for a bathing-machine and then look rather disappointed when they get it.
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