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Definition of Bathing machine
1. Noun. A building containing dressing rooms for bathers.
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
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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