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A healthresort, especially one in a German-speaking country or in the area of the former Soviet Union.
1925, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 391:
[…] how rotten it must be for her to be shut up in a potty little German kur-ort when the world could be so otherwise amusing […]
1941, Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Penguin 1971 edition, page 121:
‘And she loved inventing some rare illness and going to some famous kurort […].’
1972, Donald Olen Cowgill, Lowell Don Holmes, Aging and modernization, page 161:
[…] the Soviet Union. They are known as kurorts and emphasize physical medicine for the most part. In 1965 there were 500 of these kurorts with over 2,000 sanitoria and over 8,000,000 people visited these spas, […]
2002, Matthew Brzezinski, Casino Moscow: A Tale of Greed and Adventure, page 106:
“In the old days the kurorts were only for company employees,” she explained, using the Russian term for the resorts
1856, Dr J. A. Lagerträd, “Sundsvall Vattenkuranstalt åren 1854 och 1855 [Sundsvall Hydropathy Institution years 1854 and 1855]”, in Hygiea: Medicinsk och Farmaceutisk Månadsskrift [Hygiea: Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Monthly], volume 5, page 4:
‘Patienten skickas nu vanligen handlöst till kurort, ofta i det bedröfligaste tillstånd [...]’
The patient is now usually sent headlong to a health resort, often in the most deplorable condition
P4 Väst kan nu avslöja att kommunstyrelsens förvaltning i Trollhättan lagt 230 000 kronor på konferensdagar på en kurort, föreläsningar för chefer och nya gardiner. Detta trots att kommunen ska vara mycket restriktiva med inköp.
P4 Väst can now reveal that the Municipal Executive Office in Trollhättan has spent 230,000 kronor on conference days at a spa resort, lectures for managers, and new curtains. This despite the municipality's supposed strict purchasing policies.
