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swimming costume

British  

noun

  1. any apparel worn for swimming or sunbathing, such as a woman's one-piece garment covering most of the torso but not the limbs

"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

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Have you ever packed your swimming costume to go and watch live football?

From BBC May 10, 2025

One man is immaculately dressed in gray suit and boater, the other at ease beside him in a one-piece swimming costume.

From New York Times Jun. 29, 2023

"I was broken, mentally a shell of who I was and a very unhappy person. I hated swimming, I couldn't put on a swimming costume for years," she said.

From BBC Mar. 8, 2023

The Drummonds had only really come into Manchester to take something back: a swimming costume for Kath that she had bought online at Bravissimo .

From The Guardian Jan. 10, 2013

The air and her skin and her swimming costume are so wet that her leap into the pool doesn't come with the usual shock.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

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