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Black Death   /blæk dɛθ/   Listen
Black Death

noun
1.
The epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe.  Synonym: Black Plague.






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"Black Death" Quotes from Famous Books



... Affiliated societies sprang up in several Tuscan cities; and in 1347, Bernardo Tolomei, at that time General of the Order, held a chapter of its several houses. The next year was the year of the great plague or Black Death. Bernardo bade his brethren leave their seclusion, and go forth on works of mercy among the sick. Some went to Florence, some to Siena, others to the smaller hill-set towns of Tuscany. All were bidden to assemble ...
— New Italian sketches • John Addington Symonds



Words linked to "Black Death" :   bubonic plague, pestis bubonica, glandular plague, Black Plague



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