kursaal

See also: Kursaal

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kursaal, from Kur (“cure”) +‎ Saal (“hall”)

Noun

kursaal (plural kursaals)

  1. A public hall or building for the use of visitors at health resorts or spas; a casino
    • 1871, Ouida, Chandos‎ (Fiction), Reprint edition, Elibron, published 2001, →ISBN, page 343:
      It was not the polished serenity of fashionable kursaals, the impassive languor of aristocratic gaming-tables, the self-destruction taken with a light word, of the salles of Baden, of Homburg, of Monaco; it was gambling in all its unreined fever, …
    • 2001, Mies van der Rohe Foundation, European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture--Mies van der Rohe Award‎ (Architecture), Digitized edition, Fundació Mies van der Rohe, published 2007:
      Kursaal is a German word for casino, and a cosmopolitan term that became popular in the Belle Epoque.

Anagrams

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kursaal.

Noun

kursaal m (invariable)

  1. kursaal
  2. The letter K in the Italian phonetic alphabet
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