单词 | bathing beauty |
释义 | > as lemmasbathing beauty bathing beauty n. an attractive woman in a bathing suit, used esp. of one taking part in a beauty contest; also attributive and transferred. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beautiful thing or person > beautiful person > beautiful woman > other types of beautiful woman English rose1780 breeches-figure1808 postcard beauty1912 bathing beauty1920 bathing belle1924 1920 B. Levy in Stage Year Bk. 69 It would be hard to throw a stone..upon the American Vaudeville stage without hitting what the eight-sheets describe as ‘California Bathing Beauties’. 1926 A. Huxley Jesting Pilate iv. 266 Mack Sennett Bathing Beauties by the hundred. 1946 J. Irving Royal Navalese 28 Bathing Beauty, strawberry- or raspberry-flavoured pink blancmange. 1967 M. McLuhan & Q. Fiore Medium is Massage 18 Today's television child is attuned to ‘adult’ news—inflation, rioting, war,..bathing beauties. < as lemmas |
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