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^[1], Reprint edition (Fiction), 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^[2], Digitized edition (Architecture), 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

• rusalka

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kursaal.

Noun

kursaal m (uncountable)

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