French Disease (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

French Disease

The venereal disease, said to have been imported from France. French gout; the same. He suffered by a blow over the snout with a French faggot-stick; i.e. he lost his nose by the pox.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

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