vichy

name

1. A town in Allier department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, France; the capital of Vichy France during World War II.
2. (figuratively, historical, metonymically)A town in Allier department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, France; the capital of Vichy France during World War II.

noun

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, ellipsis)Ellipsis of Vichy water.
2. (attributive, derogatory)Labelling a regime that is traitorous or established in cooperation with a foreign or hostile power, especially in administration of occupied territory.

   “More recently, a succession of novels, including Robert Harris's Fatherland, Resistance by Owen Sheers and CJ Sansom's Dominion – which imagines a Vichy Britain in 1952 ruled by Lord Beaverbrook and Oswald Mosley – have explored the same theme.”

   “In 1940, having shunned German overtures for him to serve in the government of a future “Vichy Russia,” he fled to southern France to escape the Nazi invasion.”

   “"There is not going to be a Vichy Ukraine," former U.S. Ukraine Ambassador John Herbst told the Post.”