单词 | cure-guest |
释义 | > as lemmascure-guest 10. [After French cure , German kur , cur (see kursaal n.).] A period of residence at a health-resort, under medical regimen, in order to restore or benefit one's health. Also in combinations, as cure-guest (= German kurgast), cure-seeker. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > types of treatment generally > [noun] > residence at health resort cure1887 1887 Time Oct. 420 The month's ‘cure’ at Carlsbad. 1898 Daily News 22 July 5/1 One of the speakers was an old cure servant. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 11 Sept. 10/2 The number of cure-guests registered [at Carlsbad]. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 27 Aug. 8/1 Cure-seekers at Homburg. 1908 T. P. O'Connor Campbell-Bannerman 123 He rarely took the cure [at Marienbad]. 1908 T. P. O'Connor Campbell-Bannerman 123 The severe waters which the other cure-guests were taking. 1921 D. H. Lawrence Let. ?8 May (1962) II. 653 I..can't sit supping for ever at these inside Baden-Baden cure-springs. 1955 Times 5 July 8/4 [He] has left Berlin on his annual leave for an undisclosed destination ‘to take a cure’. 1967 E. S. Turner Taking Cure 9 Taking the cure was usually a quest for healing waters. < as lemmas |
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