A small portable bathtub designed for bathing babies or infants, especially a collapsible or foldable version for travel.
From 'bath' (Old English 'bæð') plus the diminutive suffix '-inette' (from French '-ette', meaning small). This is a 20th-century term created for the baby care market.
The bathinette was a brilliant invention—before it, parents had to use full-sized tubs filled by hand, making infant bath time a major household project that could take hours!
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