Kurn.
A cure, a taking of the waters (in Germany or another German-speaking country, as at a kursaal n.); a spa.
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1885 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 25 June in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) II. xiii. 369 It would have marred the Kur for me if I had every day to undergo a table d'hôte.
1892 C. M. Yonge That Stick I. xx. 238 The end of Constance's holidays was in view, the limit that had been intended for the Kur at Ratzes.
1915 F. M. Hueffer Good Soldier i. i. 10 The music of the Kur orchestra.
1974 Country Life 24 Oct. 1212/1 The Kur park and its monuments are still as the Edwardians knew them.
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