swimming bath
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of swimming bath
First recorded in 1735–45
Example Sentences
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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
The swimming bath is sixty feet long by thirty feet broad, and the boys are classed by the number of “bath-lengths” they can swim at a stretch.
From The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" by MacGregor, John
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
This platform is entirely occupied by this guard-room, a range of store and dwelling houses, the elaborate electric installation, power for which is supplied from below, Turkish baths, a swimming bath, and so forth.
From The City in the Clouds by Gull, C. Ranger
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