plage

plural plages

1. obsoletegeographyA region viewed in the context of its climate; a clime or zone.

   King Henry and his faction nesteled and strēgthēd him and his alies in the North regions and boreal plage.

   a. 1547, Edward Hall, Hall's chronicle, J. Johnson, published 1809, page 252

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   Tam[burlaine]. Kings of Argier, Morocus, and of Feſſe, You that haue martcht with happie Tamburlain, As far as from the frozen place ^([sic – meaning plage]) of heauen, Unto the watrie mornings ruddy hower ^([sic – meaning bower]).

   c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene iv

   In the Heauens, they supposed a burning Zone; in the Earth, a Plage [translating Latin plaga], plagued with scorching heats.

   1626, [Samuel] Purchas, “Of the New World”, in Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 5th part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, 8th book, page 792

2. astronomyA bright region in the chromosphere of the Sun.