Kurhausn.
A building at a German health resort where the medicinal water is dispensed for drinking and external use; a pump-room; hence, sometimes, a similar building at a watering-place outside Germany.
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1855 ‘G. Eliot’ in Fraser's Mag. July 61/2 The white Kurhaus glittering on a grassy slope.
1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago III. ix. 269 He drives up to the handsome old Kurhaus.
1935 J. Buchan House of Four Winds 12 Mr. McCunn..accepted the consultant's prescription, and rooms were taken for him at the Rosensee kurhaus.
1962 N. Freeling Love in Amsterdam i. 38 Tuesday night he was at the Kurhaus in Scheveningen.
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