bathing box
A small, brightly colored wooden hut found on beaches in the UK and Australia, used for changing into or out of swimwear and storing beach gear.
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A small, brightly colored wooden hut found on beaches in the UK and Australia, used for changing into or out of swimwear and storing beach gear. Known as beach huts in standard British English, the term "bathing box" is the older, more quaint variant still used in parts of Australia. They're iconic seaside features, often painted in cheerful stripes or bold colors, and can sell or rent for surprising amounts of money at popular beaches.
They rented a bathing box at the Brighton beach for the whole summer and practically lived on the shore.
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(UK, Australia) A beach hut.
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- beach box84%
Australian English for a beach hut or small storage and changing facility at the beach, typically a privately owned or leased lockup used to store beach gear. Beach boxes are a well-known feature of Melbourne's bay beaches and are highly sought-after. Distinct from a beach house.
- beach box80%
(Australia) A beach hut.
- beach hut75%
(UK, Australia) A small, single-room building above high-water mark on a beach that is used for changing into swimming clothes, for recreation, or for temporary storage.
- country box62%
A dated British colloquial expression for a modest country house — not a grand estate but a comfortable rural retreat, the kind of unpretentious weekend getaway that a well-off Victorian or Edwardian professional might maintain. The word 'box' conveys smallness and practicality rather than grandeur; a country-box was where you went to shoot game or escape London smog, not to impress anyone. The phrase has a pleasantly self-deprecating quality that suits the British sensibility.