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Contrexéville

Contrexéville proper noun: a town in the Vosges, northeastern France.

Proper noun

Contrexéville

  1. A town in the Vosges, northeastern France.

Noun

Contrexéville (uncountable)

  1. (attributive, often) Mineral water from the French town of Contrexéville, often drunk for its medicinal properties.
    • 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
    • I began to drink Contrexéville water.1934, H. G. Wells, An Experiment in Autobiography, volume II, page 588

Forms of Contrexéville

alternative formContrexeville

Questions about Contrexéville

What does Contrexéville mean?
Contrexéville means a town in the Vosges, northeastern France.
What part of speech is Contrexéville?
Contrexéville can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Contrexéville in the dictionary

  1. contrees
  2. contrefort
  3. contreforts
  4. Contrera
  5. contretemps
  6. Contrexéville
  7. contrey
  8. contrib
  9. contrib.
  10. contribs
  11. contributable

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