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Maladie du pays

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Homesickness. archaic, uncountable

    "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 […]."

Etymology

From French maladie du pays (“homesickness”).

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