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bathing machine en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (historical) Around the 19th century, a portable changing room that was rolled down a beach to the edge of the sea to allow people to paddle in the sea modestly.
    • Bathing-machines of the usual number and variety are in constant attendance, and on the South-parade is an establishment of hot salt-water baths, furnished with dressing-rooms and every requisite accommodation. 1847, “The Watering Places of England. No. VII.—Weymouth.”, in The Traveller’s Miscellany, and Magazine of Entertainment, page 8:

Forms

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bathing machines Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (6)

de Badekarre (portable changing room) · af badkoets (portable changing room) · fi siirrettävä pukukoppi (portable changing room) · de Badekarren (portable changing room) · nl badkoets (portable changing room) · sv badvagn (portable changing room)