单词 | the spa |
释义 | > as lemmasthe Spa a. With capital. The name of a watering-place in the province of Liège, Belgium, celebrated for the curative properties of its mineral springs. †In early use the Spa. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > place to which invalids resort > spa > specific the Spa1565 1565 in J. W. Burgon Life & Times Sir T. Gresham (1839) II. 93 And now do I the more feare the danger of this winter, for that I have now lost the comodity..of going to the Spa for this yere. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xi. sig. L3 Both Silo this, and Iordan did excell, And th'English Bath, and eke the german Spau. 1619 in S. R. Gardiner Lett. Relations Eng. & Germany (1865) 1st Ser. 200 For my health to goe drinke the waters of the Spaw for the few dayes yet remayning of their season. 1665 F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 243 The first inst. we arrived att the nasty Spaw, and have now began to drinke the horid sulfer watter. 1723 J. Arbuthnot Let. 17 Nov. in J. Swift Lett. (1766) II. 253 I have of late sent several patients in that case to the Spa, to drink there of the Geronster water, which will not carry from the spot. 1733 Coote in J. Swift Lett. (1768) IV. 59 A walking-stick, the manufacture of Spa, where she had it made for you. 1780 J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 509 I have received your favour, written after your return from Spa. 1835 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. IV. 475/2 The Geronstere is the most celebrated fountain at Spa after the Pouhon. < as lemmas |
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