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Aix-les-Bains

American  
[eks-ley-ban, eyks-ley-beynz] / ɛks leɪˈbɛ̃, ˈeɪks leɪˈbeɪnz /

noun

  1. a town in SE France, N of Chambéry.


Aix-les-Bains British  
/ ɛkslebɛ̃ /

noun

  1. a town in E France: a resort with sulphurous springs. Pop: 25 732 (1999)

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Example Sentences

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The bite on his chest at their Aix-les-Bains hotel became infected.

From Seattle Times

AIX-LES-BAINS, France — New Zealand sent an All Blacks jersey signed by all of the players to Namibia center Le Roux Malan after his horrible injury in their Rugby World Cup game.

From Washington Times

One of Asquith’s successors, Stanley Baldwin, regularly spent his summers at the Grand Hotel d’Albion in the French mountain spa town of Aix-les-Bains.

From The Guardian

Jessica Browning, now 31, lives in Aix-Les-Bains, France, where she plays the harp.

From Washington Times

The towns themselves — Aix-les-Bains and Vichy in France; Bath and Buxton in England; Aachen and Baden-Baden in Germany — built above the rubble of thermal baths established by Roman conquerors centuries earlier, were plotted to maximize what was known as a “therapeutic landscape,” a kind of aestheticized social engineering that promoted strolling and alfresco mingling.

From New York Times