maladie du pays
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French maladie du pays (“homesickness”).
Noun
- (now rare) Homesickness. [from 18th c.]
- 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:
- 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 […].
- 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:
French
Noun
maladie du pays f (plural maladies du pays)