rash fever

noun

A type of feverish illness accompanied by a rash.

First used 18th–19th c.
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Meanings

nounrash fever (plural rash fevers)

plural rash fevers

  1. obsoleteA type of feverish illness accompanied by a rash.First known use 18th–19th c.

    I dined at my brother T.D.'s, where Veronica and Jamie should have been, but they were both ill, Veronica of a cold, Jamie of the rash fever.

    1790, James Boswell, edited by Danziger & Brady, Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale, published 1989, page 31
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