bathing beauty
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.64 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An attractive woman in a bathing suit.
Example Sentences
- "It is a curious quality of the bathing beauty that there is no requirement of surf or lake in her experience."
- "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."
- "The time for the bathing beauty had arrived. Botticelli's Venus, born of the salty brine, was dressed in nothing but splendor."
- "The 1920s and 1930s had established a convention of showing bathing beauties, many in dauntingly athletic poses, often depicted with male companions."