coqueluche

French coqueluche

coqueluche (plural coqueluches)

1. (obsolete) A type of hood historically worn by those infected with whooping cough, to keep a warm head.

From earlier coqueluchon (“a kind of monk's cowl or hood”), from Italian coccolucio, from Latin cucullus (“hood”). Sufferers of the 1510 influenza pandemic would wear a hood resembling the coqueluchon. The spelling and/or "whooping cough" sense may have been influenced by coq (“rooster”), from the cough evoking a rooster's crow.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.klyʃ/

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coqueluche f (plural coqueluches)

1. (pathology) whooping cough
2. (obsolete, pathology) influenza
3. (figurative) craze, bug (something that "sweeps the nation")
4. (figurative) idol, star, darling
5. (obsolete) coqueluche hood

• vol coqueluche (“treatment method for treating whooping cough symptoms”)

• “coqueluche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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coqueluche f (plural coqueluches)

1. (Jersey) whooping cough
2. (Jersey) whelk

• (whelk): v'lique

coqueluche f (plural coqueluches)

1. (pathology) whooping cough (a contagious disease)

   Synonyms: pertússis, tosse convulsa