bathing-cap

plural bathing-caps

1. datedDated form of bathing cap.

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

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

   5 more examples

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

   1777 January 9, The Public Advertiser, page [3], column 2

   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.

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

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

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

   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.

   1934, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “East Wind”, in Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins; 1), London: Gerald Howe Ltd […], →OCLC, page 13

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