"bathing beauty" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: bathing beauties [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} bathing beauty (plural bathing beauties)
  1. An attractive woman in a bathing suit. Categories (topical): Appearance, People Translations (attractive woman in bathing suit): uimapukuinen kaunotar (Finnish), Badenixe [feminine] (German), Badeschönheit [feminine] (German)

Inflected forms

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