Definition of "bathing-dress" []

• A partial or loose costume used by open-air bathers, as on a sea-beach. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Montagu delights in the painstaking creation of Major Martin, with his theatre tickets and bank manager's letters, and the snapshot of Pam in a bathing-dress."
• "When she comes forth in her bathing-dress into the shallow water from behind the hood of the machine, my boat shall intercept her and prevent her return."
• "And then I put on a dry bathing-dress, and we sat to bask in the sun, and presently I nodded, resting my head against her knee, and she put her hand upon my hair and stroked it softly and I dozed."