Bikini

Bikini
   How the word bikini came to apply to the skimpy two-piece swimsuit has been a linguistic mystery since 1947, when bikinis were first seen on the beaches of the French Riviera, a year after the United States began testing atom bombs on the Bikini atoll of the Marshall Islands. Some shocked people said that the impact of the swimsuit on male beach loungers was like the devastating effect of the atomic bomb. Whoosh! And so they were called bikinis.
   A simpler and more credible notion is that the daring swimsuits resembled the attire worn b women on the Bikini atoll.
   Back in 1905, a French psychologist named Alfred Binet (1857-1911) began a critical method of determining mental age versus actual age. As the director of the laboratory of psychology and physiology at the Sorbonne, he worked in association with Theodore Simon, and the tests that were invented bore the names of both men. The tests for measuring intelligence, called the Binet-Simon Scale, were designed for children ages

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  • Bikini — Bikini …   Deutsch Wörterbuch

  • bikini — [ bikini ] n. m. • 1946; marque déposée; nom d un atoll du Pacifique ♦ Vieilli Maillot de bain formé d un slip et d un soutien gorge. ⇒ deux pièces. « Nadine portait un bikini vert, très exigu » (Beauvoir). ● Bikini nom masculin (nom déposé)… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • bikini — BIKÍNI s.n. Costum feminin de baie, format dintr un slip şi dintr un sutien de dimensiuni reduse. – Din engl. Bikini, fr. bikini. Trimis de paula, 21.06.2002. Sursa: DEX 98  bikíni s. n. (sil. ni) Trimis de siveco, 10.08.2004. Sursa: Dicţionar… …   Dicționar Român

  • Bikini — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Para el atolón del Pacífico, véase Atolón Bikini. Bikini en un mosaico romano …   Wikipedia Español

  • Bikini — Sm zweiteiliger Badeanzug std. (20. Jh.) Onomastische Bildung. Entlehnt aus gleichbedeutendem frz. bikini. Dies ist eigentlich der Name eines Atolls der Gruppe der Marschall Inseln, das wegen der von den USA 1946 1958 dort durchgeführten… …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • bìkīni — (bikîni) m 〈G ja〉 dvodijelni ženski kupaći kostim minimalnih dimenzija ⃞ {{001f}}koza s Bikinija žarg. glupača, produžena postojeća metafora (po kozama na kojima su vršena promatranja učinka pokusa s nuklearnim oružjem na otoku Bikiniju) ✧… …   Veliki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika

  • bikini® — {{hw}}{{bikini®}}{{/hw}}o bichini s. m. Nome commerciale di un tipo di costume da bagno femminile a due pezzi. ETIMOLOGIA: da Bikini, nome di un atollo corallino luogo di esperimenti atomici, attraverso l ingl. bikini (nel senso di ‘costume… …   Enciclopedia di italiano

  • bikini — (n.) low cut two piece women s bathing suit, 1948, from Fr. coinage, 1947, named for U.S. A bomb test of June 1946 on Bikini, Marshall Islands atoll, locally Pikinni and said to derive from pik surface and ni coconut, but this is uncertain.… …   Etymology dictionary

  • bikini — bìkīni (bikȋni) m <G ja> DEFINICIJA dvodijelni ženski kupaći kostim minimalnih dimenzija FRAZEOLOGIJA koza s Bikinija žarg. glupača, produžena postojeća metafora (po kozama na kojima su vršena promatranja učinka pokusa s nuklearnim oružjem… …   Hrvatski jezični portal

  • bikini — {{/stl 13}}{{stl 8}}rz. n ndm {{/stl 8}}{{stl 7}} skąpy, dwuczęściowy damski strój plażowy : {{/stl 7}}{{stl 10}}Opalać się w bikini. Paradować w bikini po plaży. {{/stl 10}} …   Langenscheidt Polski wyjaśnień

  • bikini — ‘Traje de baño femenino de dos piezas’. Esta grafía, mayoritaria en el uso, es también la etimológica, pues esta voz procede del topónimo Bikini, nombre de un atolón de las islas Marshall; se considera también válida la grafía adaptada biquini.… …   Diccionario panhispánico de dudas

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