bathing costume
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- noun
- /ˈbeɪðɪŋ ˈkɒstjuːm/
- UK
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traje de baño
- Cora, by any chance, you pack your bathing costume?
- wear a bathing costume
Examples
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At the beach, everyone was in colorful bathing costumes under the sun.
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Do you have a bathing costume?
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Light reading and bathing costumes?
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Around her and behind her, there are men in bathing costumes or in white.
Fiction book (2002) -
We don't have our bathing costumes!
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He bought a top-of-the-line bathing costume identical to those worn by the Olympic contenders.
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She wore a blue bathing costume while swimming in the ocean.
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Before going to the pool, he always packs his bathing costume in his bag.
Synonyms
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A two-piece swimsuit for women that shows the stomach and much of the body
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A piece of clothing you wear for swimming
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Clothing worn for swimming that covers the body
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Clothes worn for swimming in a pool or at the beach
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A woman's swimsuit with a separate top and bottom
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A tight piece of clothing you wear in the water
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A one-piece bathing suit for women with shoulder straps and no skirt
How Covering
Surface Forms
Morphology
bathe + costume
The meaning is directly derivable from the constituents: 'bathing' (relating to swimming or washing) modifies 'costume' (an outfit), yielding ‘an outfit for bathing/swimming’. This modifier+noun composition is a common, cross-linguistically transparent pattern, so a B1 learner who knows the words would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Bathing costume may come from the old idea of bathing in the sea or at a spa while wearing a special costume to stay modest. Over time those special clothes became the tight clothes we now call bathing costumes, so the phrase means 'clothes for swimming'.