Definition of Swimming costume

1. Noun. Tight fitting garment worn for swimming.


Definition of Swimming costume

1. Noun. (British) the clothes that one wears when bathing in the sea or a swimming pool. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swimming Costume

swimmed
swimmer's itch
swimmeret
swimmerets
swimmers
swimmest
swimmeth
swimmier
swimmiest
swimmily
swimming bath
swimming bell
swimming cap
swimming costume (current term)
swimming costumes
swimming crab
swimming event
swimming goggles
swimming hole
swimming kick
swimming meet
swimming pool
swimming pools
swimming stroke
swimming trunks
swimmingly
swimmings
swimmist

Literary usage of Swimming costume

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Public Baths and Wash-houses: A Treatise on Their Planning, Design by Alfred William Stephens Cross (1906)
"swimming costume - id. Soap Tablet - id. FEMALE. ... swimming costume - ^d. Soap Tablet - id. Evening Continuation School, First-Class (on receipt of London ..."

2. Daytrips Switzerland: 45 One Day Adventures by Rail, Car, Bus, Ferry Or by Norman P. Renouf (1999)
"The next stop are the cloakrooms, segregated by sex, where you will deposit your swimming costume. Incidentally, your toga will function as a robe when ..."

3. Swimming: With Lists of Books Published in English, German, French and Other by Ralph Thomas (1904)
"It is very difficult to get photographs of amateur ladies in swimming costume: after a considerable amount of persuasion permission has been given me by the ..."

4. Swimming: With Lists of Books Published in English, German, French and Other by Ralph Thomas (1904)
"It is very difficult to get photographs of amateur ladies in swimming costume : after a considerable amount of persuasion permission has been given me by ..."

5. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1876)
"On April 10 Paul Boyton of Xew Jersey attempted to cross the English channel from Dover in a swimming costume invented by Capt. CS Merriman of New York, ..."

6. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"... to cross the English channel from Dover in a swimming costume invented by Capt. G. 8. Merriman of Now York. He was in the water nearly three hours, ..."

7. Public Baths and Wash-houses: A Treatise on Their Planning, Design by Alfred William Stephens Cross (1906)
"swimming costume - id. Soap Tablet - id. FEMALE. ... swimming costume - ^d. Soap Tablet - id. Evening Continuation School, First-Class (on receipt of London ..."

8. Daytrips Switzerland: 45 One Day Adventures by Rail, Car, Bus, Ferry Or by Norman P. Renouf (1999)
"The next stop are the cloakrooms, segregated by sex, where you will deposit your swimming costume. Incidentally, your toga will function as a robe when ..."

9. Swimming: With Lists of Books Published in English, German, French and Other by Ralph Thomas (1904)
"It is very difficult to get photographs of amateur ladies in swimming costume: after a considerable amount of persuasion permission has been given me by the ..."

10. Swimming: With Lists of Books Published in English, German, French and Other by Ralph Thomas (1904)
"It is very difficult to get photographs of amateur ladies in swimming costume : after a considerable amount of persuasion permission has been given me by ..."

11. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1876)
"On April 10 Paul Boyton of Xew Jersey attempted to cross the English channel from Dover in a swimming costume invented by Capt. CS Merriman of New York, ..."

12. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"... to cross the English channel from Dover in a swimming costume invented by Capt. G. 8. Merriman of Now York. He was in the water nearly three hours, ..."

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