[
US
/ˈviʃi/
]
NOUN
- a town in central France (south of Paris) noted for hot mineral springs; was capital of the unoccupied part of France during World War II
How To Use Vichy In A Sentence
- In Nice, the Italian commandant stationed carabinieri outside the Jewish communal center and synagogue to make certain that Vichy police could not enter to make arrests. Today is the 66th anniversary of the rescue of the Danish Jews. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
- Franklin Roosevelt had maintained a diplomatic representative in Vichy from the outset.
- Indeed, it is so well established that it is occasionally used as a generic term, e.g. in ‘a vichyssoise of parsnip and runner beans’.
- What's the matter, did our food editor walk out in a snit because you dumped all over her literary hero or did you overedit the vichysoisse again? Clara Breed
- The water was like warm vichyssoise; thick with rich nutrients - and stinging nematocysts.
- I shall not get hysterical; I'll be as cool as vichyssoise. RESCUING ROSE
- The least elegant was the vichyssoise, which had the bland, somewhat gummy consistency of whipped avocados.
- Vichy French warships from Dakar arrived the next day and took the remaining survivors on board. Times, Sunday Times
- They visited Novodevichy Convent, with its redbrick walls rising beside a lake and an elaborate cemetery on its grounds. Henry’s Demons
- And she is saddled with a French accent so thick she sounds like she's swallowing vichyssoise every time she talks.
