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.