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monokini|mɒnəʊˈkiːnɪ|
[f. mono- after bikini b, with reference to bi- prefix2.]
A one-piece beach garment, usu. one equivalent to the lower half of a bikini and worn by women.
1964Daily Mirror (Brisbane) 6 July 6 Monokinis are selling in Paris like iceboxes in Alaska. 1964Time 7 Aug. 36/3 Sunbathing.., she in a bikini.., he in a monokini. 1965New Yorker 10 Apr. 92 He works wearing only a jet monokini, a trained canary perched on his shoulder. 1966B. E. Wallace Murder in Touraine xi. 96 She was standing there near naked in her brief monokini. 1966N.Y. Times 30 May 20 Hand-loomed Orlon yarn ‘monokini’ has top and bottom joined by a band. 1968B. Foster Changing Eng. Lang. iii. 121 In France in the year 1964..there was much talk of a topless bathing suit, immediately known as the monokini. 1971Observer (Colour Suppl.) 9 May (recto front cover), This monokini is not a tattered pair of cut-down jeans but the latest smart, expensive one-piece swimsuit made of disguised suede. 1974Guardian 4 July 2/7 The monokini is no longer the rage only at St-Tropez. French girls usually go topless in Paris open-air swimming pools. |