zwarte dood
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Etymology[edit]
Calque of German schwarzer Tod or Danish den sorte død as a term for the plague epidemic, ultimately from a North Germanic language.
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
- (historical) Black Death (plague epidemic of the mid-fourteenth century) [from ca. 1700]
- (obsolete) Metaphor for death, in particularly an unusually bitter death.
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