Words & TermsPlaces and regional language
bathers
A swimming costume or swimwear.
In a sentence
Grab your bathers; the river is warm enough for a swim.
Where it came from
Bathers developed from bather, a person who bathes or swims. As a name for swimwear it has a strong southern and western Australian distribution.
- Initial era
- 1850–1899
- Where used
- Especially Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia