What is another word for maillots?

Pronunciation: [mˈe͡ɪlɒts] (IPA)

Maillots are tight-fitting one-piece swimsuits that are worn by swimmers, divers, and gymnasts to showcase their bodies and movements. The term "maillots" is also commonly used to refer to leotards worn by ballerinas, acrobats, and figure skaters. Synonyms for this word include bodysuits, swimsuits, one-pieces, and leotards. Bodysuits and one-pieces are more general terms that can be used to describe any one-piece garment, whereas swimsuits and leotards are more specific. Maillots have been around since the early 20th century, and since then they have been worn by athletes and performers alike to showcase their skills and talents.

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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

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  • Half the campus was designed by Bottom the Weaver, half by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; Benton had been endowed with one to begin with, and had smiled and sweated and and spoken for the other. A visitor looked under black beams, through leaded casements (past apple boughs, past box, past chairs like bath-tubs on broomsticks) to a lawn ornamented with one of the statues of David Smith; in the months since the figure had been put in its place a shrike had deserted for it a neighboring thorn tree, and an archer had skinned her leg against its farthest spike. On the table in the President’s waiting-room there were copies of , the , and a small magazine—a little magazine—that had no name. One walked by a mahogany hat-rack, glanced at the coat of arms on an umbrella-stand, and brushed with one’s sleeve something that gave a ghostly tinkle—four or five black and orange ellipsoids, set on grey wires, trembled in the faint breeze of the air-conditioning unit: a mobile. A cloud passed over the sun, and there came trailing from the gymnasium, in maillots and blue jeans, a melancholy procession, four dancers helping to the infirmary a friend who had dislocated her shoulder in the final variation of .
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