bathing hut en · NOUN
Meanings
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A hut, usually located on a beachfront, for the purpose of changing into or out of a bathing suit in privacy.
When half the children were dressed again, some peasant women in their Sunday best, out picking herbs, came up to the bathing-hut and stopped shyly.
1877, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina: The Russian Messenger, page 286:
- A small house on the beach, a shelter from the sun or wind, a place for changing into and out of swimming costumes and for the safe storing of some personal belongings.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| bathing huts | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Translations (10)
ru пля́жная каби́нка (small house on the beach, a shelter from the sun or wind) · sv badhytt (hut for changing clothes on a beach) · sv badhytt (small house on the beach, a shelter from the sun or wind) · ru пля́жный до́мик (small house on the beach, a shelter from the sun or wind) · ru переодева́лка (hut for changing clothes on a beach) · fi uimakoppi (small house on the beach, a shelter from the sun or wind) · ru раздева́лка (hut for changing clothes on a beach) · ru каби́на/каби́нка для переодева́ния (hut for changing clothes on a beach) · fi uimakoppi (hut for changing clothes on a beach) · fi rantamaja (small house on the beach, a shelter from the sun or wind)