Meaning of bathing beauty | Babel Free

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An attractive woman in a bathing suit.

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“It is a curious quality of the bathing beauty that there is no requirement of surf or lake in her experience.”

“And the very idea that a girl could ever at any time achieve fame and fortune by appearing almost naked in a bathing-beauty contest and not only escape the brand of the scarlet woman but actually receive the accolade of her contemporaries' esteem and envy, would have caused her to swoon.”

“The time for the bathing beauty had arrived. Botticelli's Venus, born of the salty brine, was dressed in nothing but splendor.”

“The 1920s and 1930s had established a convention of showing bathing beauties, many in dauntingly athletic poses, often depicted with male companions.”

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