bathing beauty
English
Noun
bathing beauty (plural bathing beauties)
- An attractive woman in a bathing suit.
- 1933, Alfred Emanuel Smith, New Outlook, Outlook Publishing Company, Inc., page 30:
- It is a curious quality of the bathing beauty that there is no requirement of surf or lake in her experience.
- 1976, David Lewis Cohn, The Good Old Days: A History of American Morals and Manners as Seen Through the Sears Roebuck Catalog, Ayer Publishing, →ISBN, page 206:
- And the very idea that a girl could ever at any time achieve fame and fortune by appearing almost naked in a bathing-beauty contest and not only escape the brand of the scarlet woman but actually receive the accolade of her contemporaries' esteem and envy, would have caused her to swoon.
- 1992, Armando Riverol, Live from Atlantic City: The History of the Miss America Pageant Before, After and in Spite of Television, Popular Press, →ISBN, page 9:
- The time for the bathing beauty had arrived. Botticelli's Venus, born of the salty brine, was dressed in nothing but splendor.
- 1933, Alfred Emanuel Smith, New Outlook, Outlook Publishing Company, Inc., page 30:
Translations
attractive woman in bathing suit
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