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white plague
noun
- tuberculosis, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.
white plague
noun
- informal.tuberculosis of the lungs
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Word History and Origins
Origin of white plague1
An Americanism dating back to 1865–70
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Example Sentences
So we have the "white plague" of tuberculosis, and so we have innumerable minor plagues of coughs and colds and sore throats.
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That was the time when so many were dying of tuberculosis that it was called the great white plague.
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And so we men of today when we go to perform our evening devotions to the ladies have upon us the same old white plague.
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On her frail beauty was stamped the sign of the white plague.
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The White Plague had come to the home in Edinburgh and taken away his two brothers.
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