bathing-cap

bathing-cap (plural bathing-caps)

1. Dated form of bathing cap.
   • 1777 January 9, The Public Advertiser, page [3], column 2:

     Oiled Silk and Linen Great Coats, Cloaks, Hoods, Capuchins, Riding Aprons, Bathing-caps and Hat-caſes; […]

   • 1785 November 17, Drewry’s Derby Mercury, volume LIV, number 2794, front page, column 4:

     Alſo various Kinds of Perfumery, Oil’d Silk and Linen Bathing-Caps, Ladies Hoods and Hat-Covers, Gentlemens’^[sic] Hat-Covers and Caſes, and Riding Aprons, on reaſonable Terms.

   • 1788 May 1, The Caledonian Mercury, number 10,398, Edinburgh, front page, column 1:

     Beſt Oiled Lawn Bathing-Caps at 1 s. 8 d. each.—Beſt Oiled Silk Bathing-Caps at 2 s. 6 d. each.

   • 1789 October 15, The Bath Chronicle, volume XXVIII, number 1463, Bath: […] R. Cruttwell, […], front page, column 1:

     The dog drew him to ſhore by ſeizing hold of his bathing-cap.

   • 1934, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, Mary Poppins, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, page 13:

     From the carpet-bag she took out seven flannel nightgowns, four cotton ones, a pair of boots, a set of dominoes, two bathing-caps and a postcard album.

   • 1992 January 11, Ann Rosenberg, “Weighing Christianity”, in The Weekend Sun, volume 106, number 204, page D11, columns 1–2:

     I believe the artist counts on us to chuckle at the fact that in contrast to Michelangelo’s Christ-like titans who were sometimes constrained by classical bindings around their chests, his aerobicized new-age Christ figures suffer the indignity of too-tight bathing-caps.

   • 1992 September 20, “Forever in style”, in Fashion (The Independent on Sunday), page 30, column 1:

     It’s hard to pick a winner, but I have to go for the rubber bathing-cap she wore to kiss Richard Burton.

   • 1994, Audrey Borenstein, “Evanescence”, in Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies, volume 26, numbers 1–4, page 384:

     Morrison, the leader of their inner circle of campus radicals, in the yellow winding-sheet, his freckled face covered with pancake make-up, his red hair stuffed into a yellow bathing-cap, announcing he would immolate himself at dawn.

   • 1994 July 29, John Walsh, “Sorting the men from the bayous”, in Independent London, page 6, column 5:

     Just one slab of it could have doubled as a rubber bathing-cap.

   • 1995 December 16, John Walsh, “John Walsh: a stranger in the Palace”, in Independent Magazine, page 45, column 3:

     After midnight, the costumes got wilder. A full-fig Pharaoh chatted to a mad person in a baldie bathing-cap and Mr Spock ears.

   • 2008 January 3, Dominic Cavendish, “This right-on bird is just quackers”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 47,457, page 31, column 4:

     Arm-bands, bathing-caps, tutus and wellies supply just enough aquatic detail for the imagination to take flight.

   • 2012 November 4, Kourtney Roy, “[Pictures perfect: What makes a portrait of a woman unforgettable? We asked eight leading female photographers to identify their favourite] ‘Penthouse Pool’, 1961, by Slim Aarons”, in stella (The Sunday Telegraph), page 57:

     It was the colours that struck me when I first saw this: reds and pale yellows reflecting each other throughout the image, from the flowers in the woman’s bathing-cap to her red, red lips to the cushions that take us around to the dishes on the table, all perfectly set off by cool, pale blue.