Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
bather . - noun Australia A
swimsuit ; abathing costume .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In order to observe the Chinese body unclothed, Taylor on one occasion stole into a public bath, where nude bathing was common, and became something of a voyeur: He lurked in the darkness and inspected the bathers from a distance.
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005
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Barry Tice, who said he has been at Martin County beaches when lifeguards called bathers out of the water because of sharks, remembered Schafer for his kindness.
The Seattle Times 2010
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But the city council's public safety and neighborhood services committee recently passed a proposal to extend the drinking ban to "bathers," a category that includes almost anyone not in some sort of boat, including kayaks and canoes.
Floatopia: A Utopia? 2010
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The council's public safety and neighborhood services committee recently passed a proposal to amend the drinking ban so it extends to "bathers," a category that includes almost anyone not in some sort of boat, including kayaks and canoes.
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When all the patients had donned the white straw hats, such as bathers wear at Coney Island, I could not but laugh at their comical appearances.
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Appropriating traditional painting subjects such as bathers, landscape, and portraiture, and pushing them at times to the edge of abstraction, the artist creates lush, painterly films.
The Corsair Ron 2010
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Cézanne, whose archetypal bathers dally beneath the branched archway of an indistinct face, could not stand to be touched.
Swimming with Cézanne Mark Kerstetter 2011
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The boy in this picture, Anton, is 14 and the son of a friend, both of whom are occasional winter bathers.
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This project was based on my interest in why the bathers do this crazy thing: it's dangerous and painful, yet they swear by it.
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Most human stings result from bathers stepping on an unsuspecting stingray, innocently resting on the sea bottom, which produces a defensive reflex of the tail forward.
Maureen commented on the word bathers
In Western Australia, "bathers" is frequently used instead of swimming costume
June 9, 2009