bathing machine

English

Noun

bathing machine (plural bathing machines)

1. (historical) Around the 19th century, a portable changing room that was rolled down a beach to the edge of the sea to allow people to paddle in the sea modestly.
   • 1847, “The Watering Places of England. No. VII.—Weymouth.”, in The Traveller’s Miscellany, and Magazine of Entertainment, page 8:

     Bathing-machines of the usual number and variety are in constant attendance, and on the South-parade is an establishment of hot salt-water baths, furnished with dressing-rooms and every requisite accommodation.

Translations

portable changing room

• Finnish: siirrettävä pukukoppi
• German: Badekarre f, Badekarren m
• Swedish: badvagn (sv) c