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spa-water
Also 6–8 spaw-.
[f. spa n.]
Water derived from mineral springs (orig. from those at Spa itself).
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. (Arb.) 285, I being at the Spaw waters, there lay a Marshall of Fraunce.., to vse those waters for his health. 1636Wotton in Reliq. (1651) 497 The taste and operation of the Spaw-water. 1652French Yorks. Spaw xv. 114 Four, or six glasses of the Spaw-water may be drunk. 1709Steele Tatler No. 107 ⁋13 Drink upon them a Bottle of Spaw-Water. 1778R. James Diss. Fevers, etc. (ed. 8) 112 It [i.e. rheumatism] went off..by bathing in the sea, and drinking the Spaw-water at Scarborough. 1843R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xx. 235 Using a course of chalybeate spa waters. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 621 Treatment [of obesity] by spa-waters. |