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costume
noun a swimming costume. Compare bathers, cossie, cozzie, swimmers, swimsuit, togs. Also, costumes.
Contributor's comments: I was grew up in Sydney and we always referred to swimming apparel as a swimming costume, costume or cozzies for short. Mens' swimming costumes were often referred to as simply Speedos. I now live in Perth, Western Australia where swimming costumes are referred to as bathers.
Contributor's comments: As I grew up in Dubbo they were swimming costumes.Could be shortened to costumes or cozzies.
Contributor's comments: This word was used if trying to be 'upper class' in 1940s & 1950s.
Contributor's comments: Growing up in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, we always used "cozzies" or "swimmers", but NEVER "costumes". Of course the first two were recognised as abbreviations of swimming costumes, but costume on its own sounds completely weird to me.