Contrexéville

proper noun

A town in the Vosges, northeastern France.

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Meanings

proper noun

alternative Contrexeville

  1. A town in the Vosges, northeastern France.
nounContrexéville (uncountable)

alternative Contrexeville

  1. attributiveoftenuncountableMineral water from the French town of Contrexéville, often drunk for its medicinal properties.

    I began to drink Contrexéville water.

    1934, H. G. Wells, An Experiment in Autobiography, volume II, page 588
    1 more example

    She fetched Miss Fowler her eleven-o'clock glass of Contrexeville.

    1915, Rudyard Kipling, “Mary Postgate”, in A Diversity of Creatures, London: Macmillan and Co., […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 425
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