Sense

1. a bathing-woman

Examples

• ὦ σοβαρὴ βαλάνισσα, τί δή ποτέ μ’ ἔκπυρα λούεισ; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 821)

Similar forms

• βαλάνισσα (1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.