bathing beauty
bathing beauty noun: an attractive woman in a bathing suit.
Noun
bathing beauty (plural bathing beauties)
- An attractive woman in a bathing suit.
- It is a curious quality of the bathing beauty that there is no requirement of surf or lake in her experience.1933, Alfred Emanuel Smith, New Outlook, Outlook Publishing Company, Inc., page 30
- And the very idea that a girl could ever at any time achieve fame and fortune by appearing almost naked in a bathing-beauty contest and not only escape the brand of the scarlet woman but actually receive the accolade of her contemporaries' esteem and envy, would have caused her to swoon.1976, David Lewis Cohn, The Good Old Days: A History of American Morals and Manners as Seen Through the Sears Roebuck Catalog, Ayer Publishing,, →ISBN, page 206
- Synonyms:
- bathing belle
Synonyms of bathing beauty
Forms of bathing beauty
| plural | bathing beauties |
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Questions about bathing beauty
- What does bathing beauty mean?
- Bathing beauty means an attractive woman in a bathing suit.
- What part of speech is bathing beauty?
- Bathing beauty is a noun.
- What is the plural of bathing beauty?
- The plural of bathing beauty is bathing beauties.
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