"bathing beauty" meaning in English

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        {
          "ref": "1933, Alfred Emanuel Smith, New Outlook, Outlook Publishing Company, Inc., page 30:",
          "text": "It is a curious quality of the bathing beauty that there is no requirement of surf or lake in her experience.",
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          "ref": "1976, David Lewis Cohn, The Good Old Days: A History of American Morals and Manners as Seen Through the Sears Roebuck Catalog, Ayer Publishing,, →ISBN, page 206:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1992, Armando Riverol, Live from Atlantic City: The History of the Miss America Pageant Before, After and in Spite of Television, Popular Press,, →ISBN, page 9:",
          "text": "The time for the bathing beauty had arrived. Botticelli's Venus, born of the salty brine, was dressed in nothing but splendor.",
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        "An attractive woman in a bathing suit."
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "attractive woman in bathing suit",
          "word": "uimapukuinen kaunotar"
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        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "attractive woman in bathing suit",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "Badenixe"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "attractive woman in bathing suit",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "Badeschönheit"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "attractive woman in bathing suit",
      "word": "uimapukuinen kaunotar"
    },
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "attractive woman in bathing suit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "Badenixe"
    },
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      "sense": "attractive woman in bathing suit",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "Badeschönheit"
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