spa

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noun

Plural noun:

spas

1.
A health resort near a mineral spring or hot spring.
2.
A trendy or fashionable resort.
3.
A health club.
They went to a spa for a massage.
4.
A hot tub.
Their bath is fitted with a spa.
5.
(Maine)(Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine) A convenience store.
6.
(Ireland, slang)An idiot; a gobshite
7.
(Ireland, slang)A clumsy person (see spastic)

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health clubresort

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The term is derived from the name of the Belgian town of Spa, where since medieval times illnesses caused by iron deficiency were treated by drinking chalybeate (iron-bearing) spring water. In 16th century England the old Roman ideas of medicinal bathing were revived at towns like Bath, and in 1571 William Slingsby who had been to the Belgian town (which he called Spaw) discovered a chalybeate spr…