Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A garment worn while swimming.
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- noun A
tight-fitting garment worn forswimming .
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- noun tight fitting garment worn for swimming
Etymologies
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Examples
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CNN: Reality TV star sought in swimsuit model's death
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Bookboxed – I love what you have to say about these poems, but the gorgeous swimsuit is surely just a matter of stretching the imagination that teeny bit further.
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How can I make a “one” piece girl swimsuit from a t-shirt?
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Hanne's swimsuit is iridescent blue, her hair red gold.
BRASIL AS A GIRL Maggie Jochild 2007
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The newly crowned Miss Rhode Island has taped up her chest, Vaselined her teeth, and strutted her stuff in swimsuit and heels — all in the service of fighting global warming.
Sustainable Design Update » Blog Archive » Tonight: Miss Environmentality on CMT 2007
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She was wearing what looked to be a one-piece swimsuit from the 1940s.
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MAN. what’s next? magic beans?) hell, if he’d just have nekkid women to illustrate his posts, it would be * perfect*. (” global warming results in swimsuit models going nude in an effort to stay cool. see accompanying photos.”) then too, how many blogs can claim a comment from ‘marla’ of ‘zerohedge’?
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Awesome Takedown of Homeopathy 2010
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She didn’t lose because of her answer – she lost because the judges liked Kristen Dalton better – they gave her higher scores in swimsuit and evening gown and she actually answered her question (Prejean stumbled through her answer regardless of what she said).
ShePop: Carrie Prejean's tale of an ultra-modern pageant girl | EW.com 2009
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Hinagiku is also not part of the trip since she’s scared of airplanes (however various screenshots of Hina in swimsuit appears throughout the episode).
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Similarly, bikini was written “Bikini”—with both a capital letter and quotation marks—when it was first used in English to refer to the swimsuit.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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