Swimming-pool

Quick meaning: Swimming-pool is a noun meaning Dated form of swimming pool.

Meaning

Dated form of swimming pool.

Example Sentences

Swimming-pools for ladies, children and gentlemen.

I love especially to think of the Lady Margaret’s ancient foundation of Christ’s College with the bowling-green, the deep swimming-pool, and Milton’s mulberry tree.

Inevitably, the Comptess went so far as to offer her (and hence us, when we were there) the use of their bijou swimming-pool, which her sons had cleared of algae and water-beetles just before her arrival.

Nakedness is wholly inappropriate in almost all social situations and, even in situations where much naked flesh is exposed (on the beach, at the swimming-pool, even in the bedroom), the bodies that meet there are likely to be adorned, if only by jewellery, or indeed, even perfume: […]

Word Forms

• swimming-pools

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