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Examples
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Landladies are at the end what they were at the beginning; the same old type of bathing-machine is still in use; our forefathers and their womenfolk in the days when Mr. Punch was young behaved themselves by the "the silver sea" just as their children's children do to-day.
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Landladies are at the end what they were at the beginning; the same old type of bathing-machine is still in use; our forefathers and their womenfolk in the days when Mr. Punch was young behaved themselves by the "the silver sea" just as their children's children do to-day.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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Omnibuses convey you, if you please, from a convenient part of the town to the beach and back again; you have a clean and comfortable bathing-machine, dress, linen, and all appliances; and the charge for the whole is half-a-franc, or fivepence.
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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Some of their bold caricaturists have been known to charge an old fashioned bathing-machine as courageously as if it were a machine-gun.
Archive 2007-07-01 Kelly M. 2007
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Some of their bold caricaturists have been known to charge an old fashioned bathing-machine as courageously as if it were a machine-gun.
Vintage Distributism Athanasius 2007
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Why, I ask, is my unoffending infant so hedged into a basket-bedstead, with dimity and calico, with miniature sheets and blankets, that I can only hear him snuffle (and no wonder!) deep down under the pink hood of a little bathing-machine, and can never peruse even so much of his lineaments as his nose?
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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Miss Briggs used to betake herself to a bathing-machine, and disport in the water in a flannel gown and an oilskin cap.
Vanity Fair 2006
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At length the boat stopped at the landing-place at Boulogne, and we were driven like a flock of sheep between two ropes into a papier-maché - looking building, whence we were put into a carriage like a bathing-machine, and driven through what I took to be mews, but which were in reality the principal streets.
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But I confess to a shrinking sense of the incompleteness of the prescribed fig-leaves as I stand in the door of the bathing-machine at Tenby.
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A bathing-machine boy comes trotting his horse through the water, and, backing up by the rock on which the distressed lady stands, bids her get on.
Gammerstang commented on the word bathing-machine
(noun) - A covered vehicle used at the seaside resorts of Britain in which bathers dressed. --William Whitney's Century Dictionary, 1889
January 31, 2018