Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A partial or loose costume used by open-air bathers, as on a sea-beach.
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Examples
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Montagu delights in the painstaking creation of Major Martin, with his theatre tickets and bank manager's letters, and the snapshot of Pam in a bathing-dress.
Operation Mincemeat, Operation Heartbreak, and The Man Who Never Was 2010
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When she comes forth in her bathing-dress into the shallow water from behind the hood of the machine, my boat shall intercept her and prevent her return.
A Holiday Romance 2007
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When she comes forth in her bathing-dress into the shallow water from behind the hood of the machine, my boat shall intercept her and prevent her return.
A Holiday Romance 2007
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And then I put on a dry bathing-dress, and we sat to bask in the sun, and presently I nodded, resting my head against her knee, and she put her hand upon my hair and stroked it softly and I dozed.
Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006
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And then I put on a dry bathing-dress, and we sat to bask in the sun, and presently I nodded, resting my head against her knee, and she put her hand upon my hair and stroked it softly and I dozed.
The Door in the Wall, and other stories Herbert George 2006
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If a lady should be at the expence of having a tent pitched on the beach where she might put on and of her bathing-dress, she could not pretend to go into the sea without proper attendants; nor could she possibly plunge headlong into the water, which is the most effectual, and least dangerous way of bathing.
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She asked me if I would like her to do to me what she used to do to Mlle. Albertine when she took off her bathing-dress.
The Sweet Cheat Gone 2003
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If you had taken this precaution a moment ago you would have saved yourself the appearance of speaking at cross-purposes like a deaf man, thereby adding a second absurdity to that of having anchors embroidered on your bathing-dress.
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As she stood dabbling her bathing-dress in a pool, Siegmund came over the beach to her.
The Trespasser 2003
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He had it ready for her - lighted her cigarette - helped her to slip the straps of the white bathing-dress from her shoulders.
Hercule Poirot's Casebook Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 1984
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