: a woman in a bathing suit who is a contestant in a beauty contest
Examples of bathing beauty in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebThe bathing beauty revue served as a post Labor Day festivity that garnered many city visitors.—Brittany Chambers, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021 The Coen Brothers lovingly send up everyone from famous gossip columnist Louella Parsons to bathing beauty Esther Williams.—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2020 The swimsuit competition dates to the founding of the crowning of Miss America in 1921 as a bathing beauty revue in Atlantic City, New Jersey.—NBC News, 6 June 2018 The competition began nearly 100 years ago in Atlantic City, New Jersey, as a bathing beauty contest designed to keep tourists coming to the seaside resort in the weekend after Labor Day.—Wayne Parry, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2018
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