26 July 1872, Literary Nooks, I love especially to think of the Lady Margaret’s ancient foundation of Christ’s College with the bowling-green, the deep swimming-pool, and Milton’s mulberry tree.
27 June 1873, A. R. Potts, Berkeley Springs and Baths, Swimming-pools for ladies, children and gentlemen.
4 July 1876, The Crime of Bathing, If half a dozen swimming-pools on either river were inclosed with canvas screens, and strictly reserved for the use of men, the most earnest moralist, even if provided with a powerful field-glass, would strive in vain to undermine his moral nature from the deck of a passing steam-boat, and the men of the poorer classes could secure a daily bath in comparative comfort.
2000, Joanne Entwistle, The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory Chapter Addressing the Body, Nakedness is wholly inappropriate in almost all social situations and, even in situations where much naked flesh is exposed (on the beach, at the swimming-pool, even in the bedroom), the bodies that meet there are likely to be adorned, if only by jewellery, or indeed, even perfume: ...
2008, Jordi PuntÃ, There is a sudden cut—they are left in darkness for a few seconds—and then a small swimming-pool comes into view, with four or five people in it (“That’s my uncle and aunt’s pool,†Evian says, “We used to go there a lot, in the summer. I used to get on really well with my cousin Nadine, we’re the same age.â€).
2017, w:Mary O'Donnell, Four poems and two stories, Inevitably, the Comptess went so far as to offer her (and hence us, when we were there) the use of their bijou swimming-pool, which her sons had cleared of algae and water-beetles just before her arrival.
