Definition of Bathing machine

1. Noun. A building containing dressing rooms for bathers.

Exact synonyms: Bathhouse
Generic synonyms: Building, Edifice
Terms within: Dressing Room

Definition of Bathing machine

1. Noun. (in the 19th and early 20th 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. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bathing Machine

bathetically
bathful
bathfuls
bathhouse
bathhouses
bathing
bathing beaches
bathing beauties
bathing beauty
bathing box
bathing boxes
bathing cap
bathing caps
bathing costume
bathing hut
bathing machine
bathing machines
bathing suit
bathing suits
bathing trunks
bathing tub
bathings
bathless
bathlike
bathmat
bathmats
bathmic
bathmism
bathmisms

Literary usage of Bathing machine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"Again there 's a lurch, and you nearly fall flat, And first sprain your ancle, then tread on your hat— In that horrid contrivance, the bathing machine ! ..."

2. On concussion of the spine, nervous shock, and other obscure injuries of the by John Eric Erichsen (1875)
"Concussion of Spinal Cord from a Fall out of Bathing-Machine— Uncomplicated Paraplegia—Recovery. —A young gentleman, aged 14, after bathing at Wey- mouth on ..."

3. An Essay on by Laws: With an Appendix Containing Model by Laws Issued by the by William Golden Lumley, Great Britain Board of Trade, Great Britain Education Dept, Great Britain Local Government Board (1877)
"Every person of the female sex who may hire or use any bathing machine for ... A proprietor or attendant of a bathing machine stationed on any stand shall ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1863)
"His bathing-machine is his castle. The little bit of sea it encloses is his peculiar property. No one can encroach upon the few cubic feet of water he has ..."

5. The American Woman Abroad by Blanche McManus (1911)
"One bathes here exclusively from the bathing machine, a little house on wheels; you enter, a man hitches a horse, and the " machine " is taken on the run ..."

6. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1874)
""That bathing-machine failure was a great disappointment to me," Mooney went on, " for I'd great hopes of it at first, and one day, after telling the ..."

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