bathing suit

noun

Examples of bathing suit in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web And the one-piece bathing suits were not flattering. Kathleen Perricone, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2024 Amazon shoppers have been raving about the bathing suit skirt. Mia Huelsbeck, Peoplemag, 18 Mar. 2024 The assailant’s suffocating hand over her mouth, attempting to mute her screams, is one terrible detail that lingers; along with the bathing suit under her clothes that impeded their forcible removal. Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024 Which led him to Cary Grant, which led him to Michael Jackson, which led him back to the point that even Cary Grant wouldn’t have looked good in a bathing suit at age eighty-one. Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2024 At the same time, a bathing suit doesn’t quite have the same utility as the rest of your clothes. Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 27 Feb. 2024 Taylor would make a little white bathing suit famous a few years later in the movie Suddenly, Last Summer. 05 of 16 Hats All, Folks Taylor got ready to board a flight to Mexico City with her third husband, Michael Todd, in a sharp suit and an exotic take on the pillbox hat in 1957. Melissa Liebling-Goldberg, Peoplemag, 26 Feb. 2024 Typically, a therme complex is divided into two sections: one with several heated indoor and outdoor pools, where bathing suits are required and children are allowed, and a second that usually contains all the saunas, where clothing is verboten. Valeriya Safronova, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2024 Into the cart go bathing suits, sunglasses, an assortment of toys, stationery, and candy. Melissa Willets, Parents, 1 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1852, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of bathing suit was in 1852

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“Bathing suit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bathing%20suit. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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