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Date: 1900-2000
Language: French
Origin: Bikini Atoll, after a nuclear bomb test was held there in 1946

bikini

noun
     
bikini
bi‧ki‧ni [countable]
DCCDSS a piece of clothing in two separate parts that women wear for swimming
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