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

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 • Nov. 14, 2025

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 • May 17, 2025

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 • Feb. 8, 2025

The south was managed by France’s Vichy government, which collaborated with the Nazis.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2024

They hadn’t got any Evian or Vichy, which seems queer to me.”

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie