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
Away in the hollow beyond, the Bourn forms a picturesque, shady pool, part of which is used to make a capital open-air swimming bath for the men.
From The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa by Head, Brandon
As the well was not yet in full working order the engineers had dug a large shallow hole in the ground, lined with a tarpaulin, and not unlike a swimming bath in appearance.
From With Our Army in Palestine by Bluett, Antony
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
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