No, bikini is not a French word. Although it was used in French.
No, it was named after Bikini Atoll.
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.
It is a French word apparently after Bikini atoll
"Bikini" is the same in English and, as a loan word, in Italian.
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A Bandeaukini is another word for Bikini.
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A fashion company named it on that the nuclear tests on bikini island were so hot that their product must be that hot too. Bikini caught on.
It was the man who made the bikini. He was French engineer Louis Reard in 1946 after the Bikini Atoll where the first atomic bomb was set off.
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