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单词 bathing machine
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Definition of bathing machine in English:

bathing machine

noun
historical
  • A wheeled hut drawn to the edge of the sea, used for changing in and bathing from.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Bathing machines may have been constructed in order to assist the sick and elderly into the ocean, but this wasn't the main reason for their existence.
    • As a last resort, we could try bringing back 18 th-century bathing machines - funny little huts on wheels, in which ladies were trundled into the surf and decanted into the sea with their modesty intact.
    • His snake occupies the adjacent bathing machine, an Edwardian contraption resembling something out of a torture chamber.
    • Scarborough was the first seaside resort at which bathing machines were seen, having been recorded in an engraving by John Setterington in 1736.
    • His unquenchable enthusiasm sees crescents and terraces, a hotel and a library, and bathing machines.
 
 

Definition of bathing machine in US English:

bathing machine

nounˈbeɪðɪŋ məˌʃinˈbāT͟HiNG məˌSHēn
historical
  • A wheeled hut drawn to the edge of the sea, used for changing in and swimming from.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • His unquenchable enthusiasm sees crescents and terraces, a hotel and a library, and bathing machines.
    • Bathing machines may have been constructed in order to assist the sick and elderly into the ocean, but this wasn't the main reason for their existence.
    • Scarborough was the first seaside resort at which bathing machines were seen, having been recorded in an engraving by John Setterington in 1736.
    • His snake occupies the adjacent bathing machine, an Edwardian contraption resembling something out of a torture chamber.
    • As a last resort, we could try bringing back 18 th-century bathing machines - funny little huts on wheels, in which ladies were trundled into the surf and decanted into the sea with their modesty intact.
 
 
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