swimming costume

British

noun

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

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Before I was sick, I was so insecure about how I looked, I wouldn't even wear a swimming costume in front of my friends.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 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

Also going under the hammer is a "primitive" swimming costume which Ms Lonsbrough wore in the 1958 Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, where she won her first two gold medals.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2023

Old ladies at Zoo Lake asked me where I got my swimming costume, and then proceeded to tell me about their dead sisters.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 15, 2016

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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