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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
/ ˈ²ú±ðɪðɪŋ /
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
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of bathing-machine1
Example Sentences
He would make a splendid charger for the adjutant of a Yeomanry corps, and out of training might be put in the harness of a bathing-machine.
The lovely, lonely bays on the blue Solent, innocent of lodging-house or bathing-machine, succeeded each other from Yarmouth to the Needles.
He then led them to a bathing-machine; in which the Admiral was civilly, though with great perplexity, labouring to hold discourse with the Bishop.
To find your bathing-machine if you've forgotten the number.
Landladies are at the end what they were at the beginning; the same old type of bathing-machine is still in use; our forefathers and their womenfolk in the days when Mr. Punch was young behaved themselves by "the silver sea" just as their children's children do to-day.
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