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单词 black plague
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black plaguen.

Brit. /ˌblak ˈpleɪɡ/, U.S. /ˈblæk ˈpleɪɡ/
Forms: see black adj. and n. and plague n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: black adj., plague n.
Etymology: < black adj. + plague n. Compare later Black Death n.
Now historical.
= Black Death n. 1. Frequently with the.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > plague or pestilence > [noun] > bubonic plague
pestilencea1382
plague1522
cannikin1612
black plague1626
Black Death1755
bubonic plague1803
bubo plague1833
bubonic1901
1609 T. Dekker Ravens Almanacke (STC 6519.2) sig. B4v The Blacke plague is when a man hath much to pay, little to spend, and an vnmercifull Creditor: this blacke plague will flye ouer into the Low-countries, and sorely trouble our English Souldiers.]
1626 S. Price Londons Remembrancer 20 Let all keepe a Register of this blacke Plague in red letters.
1711 Acct. Several Late Voy. 201 Whether their Paucity exposed them to the mercilesness of the Natives, or whether it were an Epidemical Disease which they call the black Plague.
1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 365 He speaks of the plague..in 1347, otherwise called the black plague.
1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity V. xii. xi. 545 The terrible Black Plague had startled the voluptuous Court of Avignon to seriousness.
1930 W. W. Oliver Stalkers Pestilence ii. 61 After the Black Plague of the Middle Ages, bands of flagellants went about Europe, singing hymns of penitence and imposing mortification upon themselves.
1999 D. Sobel Galileo's Daughter (2000) i. 9 The letters..were frequently delayed by quarantines imposed as the Black Plague spread death and dread across Italy.
2005 Hot Bike Mar. 147/1 Plenty of staff were on hand..but they avoided me like the Black Plague.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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