Definition of "Vichy"

Vichy¹

/ˈviːʃi/

proper noun
1. A town in the Allier department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France; the capital of Vichy France during World War II.
  1. (historical, figurative, metonymically) Vichy France; the Vichy French government.
noun
1. (colloquial) Short for Vichy water.

Vichy²

noun
1. (derogatory, attributive) Labelling a regime that is traitorous or established in cooperation with a foreign or hostile power, especially in administration of occupied territory.
  Quotations
  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.
  2013 December 25, Martin Kettle, “What if the Germans had won the first world war?”, in The Guardian‎
  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.
  2015, Jonathan D. Smele, “Miliukov, Pavel Nikolaevich”, in Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916–1926, page 755
  "There is not going to be a Vichy Ukraine," former U.S. Ukraine Ambassador John Herbst told the Post.
  2022 March 2, Peter Weber, “U.S. and Britain reportedly believe the Ukraine war could last 10-20 years, become a Russian quagmire”, in The Week‎