thalassotherapy
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun Treatment of disease by sea-bathing, a residence at the seashore, or a sea voyage.
Examples
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The spa's four thalassotherapy pools have different temperatures, jet speeds and mineral contents and are open to all hotel guests.
Monique Stringfellow, 'Sicily's Wild Western Coast,' The Huffington Post, July 18, 2011
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The hotel also has the less formal Bistro Bar & Restaurant in a fresco-covered room with an outdoor terrace, a bar and cigar room in a flower-decked winter garden, in - and outdoor pools and the new La Via del Sale ('the Salt Path') Medical and Beauty Spa, which specialises in salt-based anti-ageing and skin-renewal thalassotherapy treatments.
'Italian hotels for food lovers: four of the best,' The Daily Telegraph
Note
This word comes in part from the Greek 'thalassa,' sea.
