MONOKINI
monokini
| monokini. [f. MONO- after BIKINI b, with reference to BI-
pref.2] A one-piece beach garment, usu. one equivalent
to the lower half of a bikini and worn by women.
1964 Daily Mirror(Brisbane) 6 July 6 Monokinis are
selling in Paris like iceboxes in Alaska.
1964 Time 7 Aug. 36/3 Sunbathing .., she in a bikini .., he in a monokini. 1965 New Yorker 10 Apr. 92 He works wearing only a jet monokini, a trained canary perched on his shoulder. 1966 B. E. WALLACE Murder in Touraine xi. 96 She was standing there near naked in her brief monokini. 1966 N. Y. Times 30 May 20 Hand-loomed Orlon yarn 'monokini' has top and bottom joined by a band. 1968 B. FOSTER Changing Eng. Lang. iii. 121 In France in the year 1964 .. there was much talk of a topless bathing suit, immediately known as the monokini. 1971 Observer(Colour Suppl.) 9 May (recto front cover), This monokini is not a tattered pair of cut-down jeans but the latest smart, expensive one-piece swimsuit made of disguised suede. 1974 Guardian 4 July 2/7 The monokini is no longer the rage only at StTropez. French girls usually go topless in Paris open-air swimming pools. |
Edited by R. W. BURCHFIELD
OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
First published 1972
Reprinted 1980(with corrections), 1986
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