bathing-machine
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.
Origin of bathing-machine
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How to use bathing-machine in a sentence
Barrett eventually lured Maitland into deep water, long past the bathing machine of adieu forevermore, as he called it.
The Romance of His Life | Mary CholmondeleyShe could just discern the outline of a little house, not unlike a bathing-machine without wheels.
Two on a Tower | Thomas HardyThere is some question as to what the term “bathing machine” describes.
Women's Bathing and Swimming Costume in the United States | Claudia B. KidwellTripper—none too clean in appearance—charters bathing machine.
Mr. Punch On Tour | VariousPeople wait half the morning for a bathing-machine and then look rather disappointed when they get it.
Mr. Punch On Tour | Various
British Dictionary definitions for bathing machine
/ (ˈbeɪðɪŋ) /
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
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