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
Very fond of swimming, he was a regular visitor to the college swimming bath.
From War Letters of a Public-School Boy by Jones, Henry Paul Mainwaring
There is also a large swimming bath, given by Lord Rosebery.
From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Waddington, Mary King
There was also the Louis XIV. restaurant, if one preferred a simple beefsteak to the more formal dinner, and smoking-rooms, reading-rooms, libraries, drawing-rooms, writing-rooms, not to mention the swimming bath and the children's nursery.
From Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories by Dorling, H. Taprell (Henry Taprell)
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