"Bikini, ce mot cinglant comme l'explosion même ... correspondant au niveau du vêtement de plage à on antéantissement de la surface vêtue; à une minimisation extrême de la pudeur." [Le Monde, 1947]
Variant style trikini (1967), with separate bra cups held on by Velcro, falsely presumes a compound in bi-.“When I was on acid I would see things that looked like beams of light, and I would hear things that sounded an awful lot like car horns.” [Mitch Hedberg, 1968-2005, U.S. stand-up comic]