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Plague spot

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  1. 1
    A spot on the skin that is characteristic of the plague or of a similar disease.

    "But no plague-spot appeared, and when Steb woke up in the afternoon and demanded something to eat, it was pretty evicent that he was merely suffering from a feverish cold."

  2. 2
    a spot on the skin characteristic of the plague wordnet
  3. 3
    A location where plague is active.

    "He notes that South Elmham deanery 'appears to have been a plague spot', but regrettably he supplies no reason for its unenviable condition."

  4. 4
    A location that is a plague or scourge; a place of corruption and degeneracy. figuratively

    "Suffice it that all that is most worthless in Europe may be seen gathered round the gaming-tables at Monte Carlo. The artist who did these drawings has been there. Well, I thank Heaven we have no such plague-spot in this fair England of ours."

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