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swimming bath

American  

noun

British.
  1. swimming pool.


swimming bath British  

noun

  1. (often plural) an indoor swimming pool

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of swimming bath

First recorded in 1735–45

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People think it's similar to jumping off the side of your local swimming bath into the water.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2013

There they drank her health and that of her pet baby lioness, reclined upon satin cushions, later disported themselves in her swimming bath, said to have cost 200,000 francs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Well-appointed West Indian houses are generally provided with a fresh-water swimming bath.

From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by Froude, James Anthony

In the hot weather it splashes in the swimming bath, or reads, for it has a library of several thousand books.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard

In the next water-tight compartment were the swimming bath and linen rooms.

From Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' by Government, British

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