Kurortn.
/ˈkuːrɔːt/ In Germany or other German-speaking countries, a health-resort, a watering-place; also figurative.
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > place to which invalids resort > spa
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1868 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 27 June (1955) IV. 454 We..daily rejoice that we have found such a Cur-ort, suiting both mind and body.
1926 Spectator 21 Aug. 276/1 A company is being formed..to erect a modern thermal Kurort, and build an up-to-date hotel.
1930 Discovery June 171/2 I had no troubles, except a longing for the mountains..and even the attractions of Prague, the Riesengebirge, and several magnetic kurorts failed to hold me back.
1941 V. Nabokov Real Life Sebastian Knight xv. 146 She loved inventing some rare illness and going to some famous kurort.
1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. iii. iv. 325 Others, like Naharia, are German Kurorts grafted on by plastic landscape surgery.
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