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

From Seattle Times Oct. 5, 2023

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 Aug. 24, 2019

Biotherm, a popular European secret beauty preparation that is now spreading to U.S. cosmetic counters, was born when a French physician discovered plankton on the water of his sulphur bath at Aix-les-Bains.

From Time Magazine Archive

Berry Wall left his hotel at Aix-les-Bains, the first floor of which he shared with the Aga Khan, hurried off to San Sebastian, Spain.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is a rare and beautiful drive to Aix-les-Bains, and it takes one by Lake Bourget, the shimmering bit of blue water from which Mark Twain set out on his Rhone trip.

From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Albert Bigelow Paine

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