rinderpest

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes

Borrowed from German Rinderpest (“cattle plague”).

Sick, too, and coughing like a sheep with the rinderpest. — The Dop Doctor, Richard Dehan
Meantime the Republic was plagued by the rinderpest scourge, which wrought untold havoc throughout the country. — My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War, Ben J. (Ben Johannis) Viljoen
An outbreak of rinderpest, a disease hitherto unknown in Southern Africa, came down from the North and ravaged the cattle herds. — An African Adventure, Isaac Frederick Marcosson

cattle plague

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