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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

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

There is also a large swimming bath, given by Lord Rosebery.

From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington

The two women stepped down to the swimming bath and donned their swimming dress.

From The Woman Who Vowed The Demetrian by Ellison Harding

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