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Rest-cure   /rɛst-kjʊr/   Listen
Rest-cure

noun
1.
Rest as a medical treatment for stress or anxiety etc..





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"Rest-cure" Quotes from Famous Books



... was cut out, shaped, and sewn, after the unsuspecting Timothy had been measured for it on a pretence of Corona's that she wanted to discover how much he had grown during his rest-cure. (For I regret to say that, as one subterfuge leads to another, she had by this time descended to feigning a nervous breakdown for him, due to his outgrowing his strength.) Best of all, and when the gown was finished, Nurse Branscome produced ...
— Brother Copas • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... the merest details. If the girls had a merry luncheon party invited, that was the very day Aunt Adelaide chose for a special rest-cure treatment, and demanded that the whole house be kept quiet as a church. On the other hand, if the girls were going off for the day, that was the occasion Aunt Adelaide felt lonesome, and declared herself cruelly neglected to ...
— Patty's Butterfly Days • Carolyn Wells
... of 'Tommy Atkins,' and others by Wagner. Well, all these three—sculpture, painting, and music—give me pleasure, but I should not want my cow duchess to understand any of them. I should want her to have numbers of chubby children and to fulfil her social duties, and never have to go into a rest-cure, or have ...
— The Reflections of Ambrosine - A Novel • Elinor Glyn


Words linked to "Rest-cure" :   treatment, intervention


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