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bathing machine

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bathing machine [ˈbeɪðɪŋ]
n
(Historical Terms) a small hut, on wheels so that it could be pulled to the sea, used in the 18th and 19th centuries for bathers to change their clothes
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Noun1.bathing machine - a building containing dressing rooms for bathersbathing machine - a building containing dressing rooms for bathers
building, edifice - a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice"
dressing room - a room in which you can change clothes


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In another minute or two, the distant bathing machines would begin to move, and then the elderly gentlemen of regular habits and sober quaker ladies would be coming to take their salutary morning walks.
(Alice had been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging houses, and behind them a railway station.
 
 
 
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