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maladie du pays

maladie du pays noun: homesickness.

Noun

maladie du pays (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Homesickness.
    • I felt a wish for happiness and thought with melancholy delight of my beloved cousin and longed, with a devouring maladie du pays, to see once more the blue lake and rapid Rhone, that had been so dear to me in early childhood […].1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington...

Origin of maladie du pays

From French maladie du pays (“homesickness”).

Questions about maladie du pays

What does maladie du pays mean?
Maladie du pays means homesickness.
What part of speech is maladie du pays?
Maladie du pays is a noun.

Words near maladie du pays in the dictionary

  1. maladaptivity
  2. maladapts
  3. maladdress
  4. maladherence
  5. maladi moun
  6. maladie du pays
  7. maladies
  8. maladif
  9. maladious
  10. maladive
  11. maladjust

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