Meaning of bathing-cap | Babel Free

Definitions

Dated form of bathing cap.

alt-of, dated

Examples

“Oiled Silk and Linen Great Coats, Cloaks, Hoods, Capuchins, Riding Aprons, Bathing-caps and Hat-caſes; […]”

“Alſo various Kinds of Perfumery, Oil’d Silk and Linen Bathing-Caps, Ladies Hoods and Hat-Covers, Gentlemens’^([sic]) Hat-Covers and Caſes, and Riding Aprons, on reaſonable Terms.”

“Beſt Oiled Lawn Bathing-Caps at 1 s. 8 d. each.—Beſt Oiled Silk Bathing-Caps at 2 s. 6 d. each.”

“The dog drew him to ſhore by ſeizing hold of his bathing-cap.”

“From the carpet-bag she took out seven flannel nightgowns, four cotton ones, a pair of boots, a set of dominoes, two bathing-caps and a postcard album.”

“I believe the artist counts on us to chuckle at the fact that in contrast to Michelangelo’s Christ-like titans who were sometimes constrained by classical bindings around their chests, his aerobicized new-age Christ figures suffer the indignity of too-tight bathing-caps.”

“It’s hard to pick a winner, but I have to go for the rubber bathing-cap she wore to kiss Richard Burton.”

“Morrison, the leader of their inner circle of campus radicals, in the yellow winding-sheet, his freckled face covered with pancake make-up, his red hair stuffed into a yellow bathing-cap, announcing he would immolate himself at dawn.”

“Just one slab of it could have doubled as a rubber bathing-cap.”

“After midnight, the costumes got wilder. A full-fig Pharaoh chatted to a mad person in a baldie bathing-cap and Mr Spock ears.”

“Arm-bands, bathing-caps, tutus and wellies supply just enough aquatic detail for the imagination to take flight.”

“It was the colours that struck me when I first saw this: reds and pale yellows reflecting each other throughout the image, from the flowers in the woman’s bathing-cap to her red, red lips to the cushions that take us around to the dishes on the table, all perfectly set off by cool, pale blue.”

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