Vichy

[vish-ee, vee-shee]

noun

1. a city in central France: provisional capital of unoccupied France 1940–1942; hot springs.

2. (often lowercase),  vichy water.

Vichy

/ viʃi, ˈviːʃiː /

noun

1. Latin name: Vicus Calidus. a town and spa in central France, on the River Allier: seat of the collaborationist government under Marshal Pétain (1940–44); mineral waters bottled for export. Pop: 26 528 (1999)

Example Sentences

Alternately, his tone was infused with contempt, sarcasm or genuine sympathy for his subjects who had been victims of brutality unleashed by the Gestapo or secret police of the Vichy regime.

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Eventually, the U.S. surrenders after a German nuclear attack; and America is occupied by Nazi Germany along the eastern seaboard and Japan on the West Coast, with a pseudo-independent Vichy regime in the Rockies.

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That led the Nazis to burn Feuchtwanger’s books and his imprisonment in France under the Vichy regime.

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In “The Great Yes,” Kentridge turns to a creaky old cargo ship smelling of rotted oranges that sailed from Marseille to Martinique in 1941 overcrowded with some 300 passengers escaping Vichy France.

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Like the other Vichy Republicans, Nikki Haley is auditioning for a position as Trump’s vice president or other high-ranking member of his regime.

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