bathing machine

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Noun

bathing machine (plural bathing machines)

  1. (historical) Around the 19th century, a portable changing room that was rolled down a beach to the edge of the sea to allow people to paddle in the sea modestly.
    • 2022 October 5, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: Reading to Southampton”, in RAIL, number 967, page 58:
      Population 11,383 (but well over 50,000 today), Weymouth was patronised by George III and the Royal Family, who stayed in the Royal Lodge on the Esplanade - hence "bathing-machines of the usual number and variety are in constant attendance", while South Parade has "an establishment of hot salt-water baths, furnished with dressing rooms and every requisite accomodation".

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