Meaning of Vichy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A town in Allier department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, France; the capital of Vichy France during World War II.
2. Ellipsis of Vichy water.
   abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, ellipsis
3. Labelling a regime that is traitorous or established in cooperation with a foreign or hostile power, especially in administration of occupied territory.
   attributive, derogatory
4. Vichy France; the Vichy French government.
   figuratively, historical, metonymically

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Examples

“More recently, a succession of novels, including Robert Harris's Fatherland, Resistance by Owen Sheers and CJ Sansom's Dominion – which imagines a Vichy Britain in 1952 ruled by Lord Beaverbrook and Oswald Mosley – have⟳ explored the same theme.”

“In 1940, having shunned German overtures for him to serve⟳ in the government of a future “Vichy Russia,” he fled to southern France to escape⟳ the Nazi invasion.”

“"There is not going to be a Vichy Ukraine," former U.S. Ukraine Ambassador John Herbst told the Post⟳.”

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