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单词 spa-water
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spa-watern.

Forms: Also 1500s–1700s spaw-.
Etymology: < spa n.
Water derived from mineral springs (originally from those at Spa itself).
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the world > matter > liquid > water > [noun] > from a spring, fountain, or well
well watereOE
pit watera1398
spring-waterc1450
watersc1484
fountain-water1572
spa-water1589
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiv. 235 I being at the Spaw waters, there lay a Marshall of Fraunce.., to vse those waters for his health.
1636 H. Wotton Let. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 497 The taste and operation of the Spaw-water.
1652 J. French York-shire Spaw xv. 114 Four, or six glasses of the Spaw-water may be drunk.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 107. ⁋13 Drink upon them a Bottle of Spaw-Water.
1778 R. James Diss. Fevers (ed. 8) 112 It [i.e. rheumatism] went off..by bathing in the sea, and drinking the Spaw-water at Scarborough.
1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xx. 235 Using a course of chalybeate spa waters.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 621 Treatment [of obesity] by spa-waters.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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