单词 | mort-de-chien |
释义 | ‖ mort-de-chien Obs. [Fr.; lit. ‘dog's death’, but this is an etymologizing perversion of the Pg. mordexim (mɔrdeˈʃĩ): see mordisheen.] A name used by Europeans in India for cholera.
1780Impey in Sir J. F. Stephen Nuncomar & Impey (1885) II. 239 note, I am once or twice a year subject to violent attacks of cholera morbus, here called the mort de chien, and to other disorders. 1813J. Johnson Infl. of Tropical Climate (1815) 405 Mort de chien is nothing more than the highest degree of Cholera Morbus. |

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