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bikini

Bikini is a Marshallese atoll, Pikinni, whose German colonial name hit the headlines when the US tested atomic bombs there in July 1946; days later a Paris designer gave the name to his tiny two-piece swimsuit, which conquered the world's beaches and spawned the monokini and the burkini.

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