[See def.] The name of a town in the department of Allier in Central France, used attrib. and ellipt. to designate a mineral water obtained from springs there.
1842. Retrospect Pract. Med. & Surg., 54. In most of the experiments, only fragments of calculi have been subjected to the action of Vichy water.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, s.v., Vichy-water.
1876. Nature, XIV. 320/2. Vichy waters, from a physiological and hygienic point of view.
1903. Smart Set, IX. 16. He … mixed the contents of the phial in a glass half-filled with vichy.
