"swimming-pool" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1872 July 26, “Literary Nooks”, in The Brooklyn Daily Union, volume IX, number 271, Brooklyn, N.Y., front page, column 2:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1873 June 27, A. R. Potts, “Berkeley Springs and Baths”, in The Memphis Daily Appeal, volume 33, number 179, Memphis, Tenn., page [4], column 7:",
          "text": "Swimming-pools for ladies, children and gentlemen.",
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          "ref": "1876 July 4, “The Crime of Bathing”, in The New-York Times, volume XXV, number 7739, New York, N.Y., page 4, column 6:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2000, Joanne Entwistle, “Addressing the Body”, in The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory, Cambridge, Cambs: Polity Press, →ISBN, page 6:",
          "text": "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: […]",
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          "ref": "2008 spring, Jordi Puntí, “A Fire”, in The Review of Contemporary Fiction: New Catalan Fiction, volume XXVIII, number 1, Dalkey Archive Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 107:",
          "text": "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.”).",
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          "ref": "2017, Mary O’Donnell, “Four poems and two stories”, in Studi irlandesi: A Journal of Irish Studies, number 7, Firenze University Press:",
          "text": "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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        "Dated form of swimming pool."
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          "ref": "1872 July 26, “Literary Nooks”, in The Brooklyn Daily Union, volume IX, number 271, Brooklyn, N.Y., front page, column 2:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1873 June 27, A. R. Potts, “Berkeley Springs and Baths”, in The Memphis Daily Appeal, volume 33, number 179, Memphis, Tenn., page [4], column 7:",
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          "ref": "1876 July 4, “The Crime of Bathing”, in The New-York Times, volume XXV, number 7739, New York, N.Y., page 4, column 6:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Joanne Entwistle, “Addressing the Body”, in The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory, Cambridge, Cambs: Polity Press, →ISBN, page 6:",
          "text": "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: […]",
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          "ref": "2008 spring, Jordi Puntí, “A Fire”, in The Review of Contemporary Fiction: New Catalan Fiction, volume XXVIII, number 1, Dalkey Archive Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 107:",
          "text": "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.”).",
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          "text": "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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