VICHY
pronunciation
How to pronounce VICHY in British English:
UK ['viʃi:]
How to pronounce VICHY in American English:
US
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- Noun:
- a town in central France (south of Paris) noted for hot mineral springs; was capital of the unoccupied part of France during World War II
Word Origin
- Vichy (adj.)
- in reference to collaborationist government of France, 1940, from the name of the city in department of Allier in central France, famous for mineral springs, seat 1940-44 of the French government formed under Nazi occupation and headed by Pétain. The place name is of uncertain origin.
Example
- 1. Jardin 's grandfather was a senior vichy official .
- 2. This extraordinary argument came originally from antonin morlet , a vichy doctor and amateur archaeologist who took over the excavation .
- 3. One former lula adviser derides them as " boy scouts " and as the equivalent of the collaborationist vichy regime in wartime france .
- 4. The french were so loath to discuss vichy honestly that it took an american , robert paxton , to write the path-breaking history in 1972 .
- 5. As mr begley notes , dreyfus 's wife , lucie , changed her name and fled vichy france for the free zone in the south .