Word derivation for "machine":
Basque = makina, Finnish = kone
Miresua = manke
The word machines occurs once in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in Chapter 2 The Pool of Tears.
Alice had been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find a number of bathing machines in the sea....According to Wikipedia: The bathing machine was a device, popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, to allow people to change out of their usual clothes, possibly change into swimwear and then wade in the ocean at beaches. Bathing machines were roofed and walled wooden carts rolled into the sea.
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