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  • noun Plural form of diving-board.

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Examples

  • A nice, big pool just by the bore, with diving-boards and everything, big enough for everybody to get into and have fun.

    A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950

  • Opposite the hotel I could see the swimming-pool with diving-boards and cabins and a lawn beside it, just as Jean had described it to me in her letters.

    A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950

  • Opposite the hotel I could see the swimming-pool with diving-boards and cabins and a lawn beside it, just as Jean had described it to me in her letters.

    A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950

  • A nice, big pool just by the bore, with diving-boards and everything, big enough for everybody to get into and have fun.

    A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950

  • They have a shallow and a deep end, with diving-boards at the deep end.

    A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950

  • They have a shallow and a deep end, with diving-boards at the deep end.

    A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950

  • On the left side of the diving-boards they took up their pre-arranged positions:

    Tell England A Study in a Generation Ernest Raymond 1931

  • Countless dragonflies flashed their brilliant colours as they whirled and darted, green frogs plunged at our approach from their diving-boards of matted rush, or quirked defiance from the banks where they were safe; and now and again a startled kingfisher showed us the blue gleam of a wing above the brown maces of the bulrushes and the high-hanging tassels of the sedges.

    Two Summers in Guyenne Edward Harrison Barker 1885

  • The bath is to be in two parts -- one for ladies, one for gentlemen -- and will have dressing-boxes all round, besides diving-boards and every sort of convenience.

    Jeff Benson, or the Young Coastguardsman 1859

  • "Joe, if we had a really decent swimming-pool just by the bore, with little cabins to change in and green lawns to sunbathe on, and diving-boards, and an old man in charge to mow the grass and keep it clean and nice-would people use it, Joe?

    A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950

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