"fur bikini"

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:40 AM -0500 1/9/07, Fred Shapiro wrote:
>On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Charles Doyle wrote:
>
>>Insomniac TV was showing Hugh Hefner's 80th (!) birthday. His current
>>girlfriend--buxom (of course), blonde (naturally?), and
>>mid-twentyish--had organized a party for Hef. She had invited several
>>elderly Playmates from the 1970s, who (she explained matter-of-factly)
>>had posed in the magazine in the old-fashioned style--in "fur bikinis."
>>That is, they did not shave (or otherwise depilate) their pubic area.
>
>This seems like an odd term, in that the essence of a bikini is that it
>covers (at least minimally) two areas of a woman's body, whereas the fur
>here presumably covers only one area.
>
>Fred
>
>
Indeed; seems more like a retronymic fur monokini.

LH

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