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Contrexéville|kɔ̃trɛksevil|
Also Contrexeville.
The name of a town in the Vosges, N.E. France, used (often attrib.) to designate the calcareous mineral water found there and drunk for its medicinal properties.
1877Tamin-Despalles Min. Waters of Contrexéville 13 There are separated the fluoro-bicarbonate and sulphate of calcium waters, of which Contrexéville is the type. 1891Debout-d'Estrées Contrexéville 12 It is in gouty diabetes..that Contrexéville is to be prescribed. Ibid. 13 The Contrexéville waters are clearly indicated. 1909G. B. Shaw Pen Portr. & Rev. (1932) 85 The strict regimen of Contrexeville water and saccharine in which his Bacchic priesthood will presently end. 1915Kipling Diversity of Creatures (1917) 425 Her eleven-o'clock glass of Contrexeville. 1934H. G. Wells Exper. Autobiogr. II. viii. 588, I began to drink Contrexéville water. 1967H. Johnson in C. Ray Compleat Imbiber IX. 141 Contrexéville. Still water with a slight earthy taste. |