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Recent Examples of bathing beauty
The bathing beauty revue served as a post Labor Day festivity that garnered many city visitors.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bathing beauty
Noun
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Gadot, the magazine’s cover girl, brought the booze to a private residence near Gramercy Park.—
Richard Johnson,
New York Daily News,
16 Mar. 2025
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The prosecutor behind Elizabeth Holmes' guilty verdict said the entrepreneur's fall from Silicon Valley's cover girl to a felon serves as a cautionary tale.—
Julia Bonavita,
Fox News,
9 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In terms of blush Gonzalez is known for giving her clients a watercolored romantic cheek inspired by Alberto Vargas’s pinup girl paintings.—
Conçetta Ciarlo,
Vogue,
7 Mar. 2025
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The bangs weren't cut straight across like most retro baby bangs, which tend to skew more ‘50s pinup girl than ’50s movie princess.—
Kara Nesvig,
Allure,
4 Nov. 2024
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Culpo previously dated singer Nick Jonas, who’s now married to actor Priyanka Chopra (Miss World 2000) and football veteran Tim Tebow, who is now married to South African beauty queen Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters (Miss Universe 2017).—
Christie D’Zurilla,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2025
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Image Blue, 40, a former model and beauty queen from Apple Valley, Calif., once doubted her path in opera, dispirited by a wave of rejections early in her career.—
Javier C. Hernández,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Bathing beauty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bathing%20beauty. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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