great-pox
English
Noun
great-pox (uncountable)
- (obsolete) syphilis
- 1898, Thomas Stevenson, A treatise on hygiene and public health, volume 2, page 890:
- Putting aside passages which might possibly apply to great-pox, smallpox was evidently well known to Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
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