Meanings
nounthe Irish hospitality (uncountable)
- obsoleteuncountableGout.
Lord Thomond is laid up with the Gout: The Irish Hospitality has broke out in his Feet, and pins him down to a great Chair and a slender Meal.
1736 December 23, John Boyle Orrery, “To Thomas Southerne”, in Emily Charlotte de Burgh, Countess of Cork, editor, The Orrery Papers, volume I, London: Duckworth, published 1903, page 183
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