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bathing beauty
noun[ C ]
old-fashioneduk /ˌbeɪ.ðɪŋ ˈbjuː.ti/ us /ˌbeɪ.ðɪŋ ˈbjuː.t̬i/
a woman who wears a swimming costume and especially one who competes in a beauty contest:
The one-time bathing beauty went on to become a successful model and television spokesperson.
The final two bathing beauties waited anxiously on stage as the host prepared to announce the winner.
The student had posters of bathing beauties pinned above the desk in his bedroom.
Now an award-winning journalist, she had been a bathing beauty when she was a young woman just out of college.
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