Monokini vs Bikini - What's the difference?
monokini | bikini |
The lower part of a bikini worn without the upper part (i.e., worn bare-breasted).
* 1965 , "Topless Triumph", Time , 12 Mar 1965:
* 2009 , Angelique Crisafis, "France Falls Out of Love with Topless Sunbathing", The Guardian , 22 Jul 09:
A brief two-piece bathing suit worn by women.
* 1950 , "In the Swim", Time , 2 Oct 1950:
Bikini is a coordinate term of monokini.
Bikini is a derived term of monokini.
Bikini is a related term of monokini.
As nouns the difference between monokini and bikini
is that monokini is the lower part of a bikini worn without the upper part (i.e., worn bare-breasted) while bikini is a brief two-piece bathing suit worn by women.As a proper noun Bikini is
bikini atoll.monokini
English
Noun
(monokinis)- All this so impressed the Appellate Court in Aix-en-Provence that it reversed the convictions. "Inasmuch as the spectacle of the nudity of the human body has nothing intrinsic in it that would outrage normal, even delicate decency, and since Claudine Durand concealed her sexual parts with a sufficiently opaque monokini , we acquit her."
- French academics and historians have spent the early summer months pondering the sociological meaning of the demise of France's once-favourite piece of beachwear, the "monokini " – the bottom half of a bikini with no top.
Coordinate terms
* (l)See also
* (l) ----bikini
English
(wikipedia bikini)Noun
(en noun)- Cole has little but scorn for France's famed Bikini bathing suits. Explains he: " French girls, have short legs. Swimsuits have to be hiked up at the sides to make their legs look longer. "