Meaning of kursaal | Babel Free

Definitions

A public hall or building for the use of visitors at health resorts or spas; a casino

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Examples

“It was not the polished serenity of fashionable kursaals, the impassive languor of aristocratic gaming-tables, the self-destruction taken with a light⟳ word, of the salles of Baden, of Homburg, of Monaco; it was gambling in all its unreined fever, […]”

“Use⟳ your eyes, man. Look⟳ at the Kursaal, its luxuries, its gardens, its gilding, its attractions, all of them cheap, except the one that pays for all; all these delights, and the rents, and the croupiers, and the servants, and the income and liveries of an unprincipled prince, who would otherwise be a poor but honest gentleman with one bonne, instead of thirty blazing lackeys, all come⟳ from the gains of the bank, which are the losses of the players, especially of those that have⟳ got a system.”

“Having brought it to a close⟳, he took his way to the Kursaal. The great German watering-place is one of the prettiest nooks in Europe, and of a summer evening in the gaming days, five-and-twenty years ago, it was one of the most brilliant scenes.”

“Kursaal is a German word for casino, and a cosmopolitan term that became popular in the Belle Epoque.”

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