1860 R. M. S. Jackson 517 Add to this list the ‘grape cure’.., the ‘beer cure,’ the ‘rest cure’.
1892 S. Hale 28 Apr. (1919) 272 She is at a rest-cure.
1959 T. S. Eliot i. 25 Now's the time to take a long holiday, Let's say a rest cure.
1999 R. Deakin (2000) xiv. 169 I dragged myself up to friends in Dorset for a rest cure in a hammock in a hilltop orchard.