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bathing machines

bathing machines is the plural of bathing machine.

Meaning of bathing machine

Noun

bathing machine (plural bathing machines)

  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

Questions about bathing machines

What is bathing machines the plural of?
Bathing machines is the plural of bathing machine.

Words near bathing machines in the dictionary

  1. bathing dress
  2. bathing house
  3. bathing hut
  4. bathing huts
  5. bathing machine
  6. bathing machines
  7. bathing suit
  8. bathing suits
  9. bathing trunks
  10. bathing tub
  11. bathing tubs

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