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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
/ ˈɪðɪŋ /
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
51Թ 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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