bathing hut

English

Noun

bathing hut (plural bathing huts)

1. A hut, usually located on a beachfront, for the purpose of changing into or out of a bathing suit in privacy.
   • 1877, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina: The Russian Messenger, page 286:

     When half the children were dressed again, some peasant women in their Sunday best, out picking herbs, came up to the bathing-hut and stopped shyly.

2. A small house on the beach, a shelter from the sun or wind, a place for changing into and out of swimming costumes and for the safe storing of some personal belongings.

Translations

hut for changing clothes on a beach

• Finnish: uimakoppi (fi)
• Russian: каби́на/каби́нка для переодева́ния f (kabína/kabínka dlja pereodevánija), переодева́лка f (pereodeválka), раздева́лка (ru) f (razdeválka)
• Swedish: badhytt (sv) c

small house on the beach, a shelter from the sun or wind

• Finnish: uimakoppi (fi), rantamaja
• Russian: пля́жная каби́нка f (pljážnaja kabínka), пля́жный до́мик m (pljážnyj dómik)
• Swedish: badhytt (sv) c