There are no bathing-steps on the river front, as the Ganges happens not to be holy here; indeed there is no river front, and bazaars shut out the wide and shifting panorama of the stream.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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— a washing or soaking (as in water or steam) of all or part of the body
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— the activity of swimming in a river or lake, or in the sea
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Collins
— swimming
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1 use of ‘bathing’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster