Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A covered shed or bath-house in which open-air bathers change their dress.

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Examples

  • She had, when we were children, refused to take us to a seaside place because she heard it possessed a bathing-box,127 but she loved the activities of a fishing village.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • She had, when we were children, refused to take us to a seaside place because she heard it possessed a bathing-box,127 but she loved the activities of a fishing village.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • She had, when we were children, refused to take us to a seaside place because she heard it possessed a bathing-box,127 but she loved the activities of a fishing village.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • She had, when we were children, refused to take us to a seaside place because she heard it possessed a bathing-box,127 but she loved the activities of a fishing village.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • She had, when we were children, refused to take us to a seaside place because she heard it possessed a bathing-box,127 but she loved the activities of a fishing village.

    Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • She had, when we were children, refused to take us to a seaside place because she heard it possessed a bathing-box,127 but she loved the activities of a fishing village.

    Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Haines was, very properly, most particular about defining the bathing-box exactly.

    Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 George A. Birmingham 1907

  • "Corporal Cotter," said Haines, "will drop out of the ranks as the column passes the third bathing-box, numbering from the south end of the beach, Mrs. Tompkins 'bathing-box, which is painted bright green."

    Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 George A. Birmingham 1907

  • The sooner he is found the sooner he can start life in a bathing-box.

    There was a King in Egypt Norma Lorimer 1906

  • The little bathing-box had two doors, one to the water, the other to the path.

    A Thief in the Night: a Book of Raffles' Adventures 1893

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