Meaning of swimming-pool | Babel Free

Definitions

Dated form of swimming pool.

alt-of, dated

Examples

“I love⟳ especially to think⟳ of the Lady Margaret’s ancient foundation of Christ’s College with the bowling-green, the deep swimming-pool, and Milton’s mulberry tree.”

“Swimming-pools for ladies, children and gentlemen.”

“If half a dozen swimming-pools on either river were inclosed with canvas screens, and strictly reserved for the use⟳ of men, the most earnest moralist, even if provided with a powerful field-glass, would strive in vain to undermine his moral nature from the deck of a passing steam-boat, and the men of the poorer classes could secure a daily bath in comparative comfort.”

“Nakedness is wholly inappropriate in almost all social situations and, even in situations where much naked flesh is exposed (on the beach, at the swimming-pool, even in the bedroom), the bodies that meet⟳ there are likely to be adorned, if only by jewellery, or indeed, even perfume: […]”

“There is a sudden cut⟳—they are left in darkness for a few seconds—and then a small swimming-pool comes into view⟳, with four or five people in it (“That’s my uncle and aunt’s pool,” Evian says, “We used to go there a lot, in the summer. I used to get⟳ on really well with my cousin Nadine, we’re the same age.”).”

“Inevitably, the Comptess went so far as to offer⟳ her (and hence us, when we were there) the use⟳ of their bijou swimming-pool, which her sons had cleared of algae and water-beetles just before her arrival.”

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