bathing machine
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English
Noun
bathing machine (plural bathing machines)
- (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.
- 1847, “The Watering Places of England. No. VII.—Weymouth.”, in The Traveller’s Miscellany, and Magazine of Entertainment, page 8:
- 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.
Translations
portable changing room
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