kursaal means A public hall or building for the use of visitors at health resorts or spas; a casino. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 92 out of 100.
Etymology
Borrowed from German Kursaal, from Kur (“cure”) + Saal (“hall”).
noun
- A public hall or building for the use of visitors at health resorts or spas; a casino“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, […]”