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
Coal bunker and boiler casing and swimming bath.
From Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' by British Government
We have already noted in a previous discussion that the Berkeley Springs bath houses of the 1850s provided a swimming bath for men but no similar facilities for women.
From Women's Bathing and Swimming Costume in the United States by Claudia B. Kidwell
I’ve practised regularly, from a boy, in the sea, and in the swimming bath, and even in my wash-hand basin—hours at a time I’ve practised—but I never can keep under more than two minutes.’
From The Magic World by H. R. (Harold Robert) Millar
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