German

Noun

Kursaal m ‎(genitive Kursaales or Kursaals, plural Kursäle)

1. kursaal (entertainment hall in a spa)

Declension

English

Noun

kursaal ‎(plural kursaals)

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

   • 1871, Ouida, Chandos (Fiction), Reprint edition, Elibron, published 2001, ISBN 9781402175046, page 343:

     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, …

   • 2001, Mies van der Rohe Foundation, European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture--Mies van der Rohe Award (Architecture), Digitized edition, Fundació Mies van der Rohe, published 2007:

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

Italian

Etymology

German

Noun

kursaal m ‎(invariable)

1. kursaal
2. The letter K in the Italian phonetic alphabet