In May 1946, he advertised the bathing suit, known as the "Atome," as the world's "smallest bathing suit".
Réard named his swimsuit the "bikini", taking the name from the Bikini Atoll, one of a series of islands in the South Pacific where testing on the new atomic bomb was occurring that summer. Historians assume Reard termed his swimsuit the "bikini" because he believed its revealing style would create reactions among people similar to those created by America's atomic bomb in Japan just one summer earlier.
Some islands in the pacific ocean.
No, bikini is not a French word. Although it was used in French.
No, it was named after Bikini Atoll.
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Bikini Bottom
The word "bikini" is derived from French, not Greek or Latin. It was named after the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands where atomic bomb testing took place in the 1940s.
"Bikini" is the same in English and, as a loan word, in Italian.
It is a French word apparently after Bikini atoll
1950s.
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Bikini
A Bandeaukini is another word for Bikini.