Vichy

American  

[vish-ee, vee-shee] / ˈvɪʃ i, viˈʃi /

noun

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

2. (often lowercase) vichy water.

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Vichy British  

/ 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)

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Example Sentences

After making a splash at the 1925 fair, the piece was later transferred to the Élysée Palace, home to the French president, before slipping into the French national collections during the Vichy Regime.

From The Wall Street Journal

My hometown of Vichy has a dark history.

From The Wall Street Journal

She gives insufficient weight to the suspicions that surround Stein and Toklas’s conduct during the Vichy regime that came into being following the German Occupation of France.

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From Salon

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.

From Los Angeles Times