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单词 bathing machine
释义

bathing machine in British English

(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

bathing-machine in American English

(ˈbeiðɪŋməˌʃin)
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
Word origin
[1765–75]This word is first recorded in the period 1765–75. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: backwash, bilateral, civilization, guidance, lightweight

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Examples of 'bathing machine' in a sentence
bathing machine

Beach standards have become impossibly high since the days when most sins of the flesh could be concealed inside a bathing machine.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
But she's not around any more, so commoners can check out her bathing machine and the alcove where she used to sit and sketch.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
When she had finished and clambered back into the bathing machine it would be winched back up the beachwith a steel cable.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The bathing machine once ran down grooves in a concrete slip that led into the sea.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The successor to the horse-drawn bathing machine, the beach hut was developed in the mid-20th century principally as a changing room.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Several handsome rows of houses have been erected and bathing machines established.
The Sun (2012)
Victorian ladies did not suddenly emerge from bathing machines in thongs.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Their tireless propaganda for clothes-free sun exposure helped to make bathing machines and woollen one-pieces a thing of the past.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
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