Meanings
plural bathowners
- The owner of a commercial public bathhouse.
Smith commentated on the irony of the baths remaining closed because, she says, bathowners have been the most receptive in implementing [safe sex] educational programs […] She said it was unfortunate that the judge looked at all the sex establishments as "one unit."
1984 December 15, Christine Guilfoy, “Bay Area Bathowners Balk At Restrictions”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 22, page 1
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