grippe
IPA: grˈɪp
noun
- (pathology, dated) Influenza, the flu.
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Examples of "grippe" in Sentences
- I seem to have lost much of my grip since I had "grippe" in 1892.
- Ordinarily, the so-called "grippe" is a common, mixed infection -- not true influenza.
- The grippe has been the most fruitful cause of middle-ear inflammation and earache in recent years.
- [Illustration: W.S. Nicholson, Esq.] _Gentlemen_ -- In January of '90 I took the "grippe," went to work before
- The "grippe," as it is called, touched me at Vienna when on my way from the Holy Land, but I felt it only half a day, and never again since.
- The 'grippe' has gripped us here most universally, and no wonder, considering our most exceptional weather; and better the grippe than the fever which preceded it.
- Anna Pavlovna had been coughing for several days, and had what she called the grippe (grippe then being a new word, used only by the few), and therefore had not attended at court nor even left the house.
- She said for one thing, that it was the hard-boiled eggs and the state of the house that did it, and when I said that the grippe was a germ, she retorted that I had probably brought it to her on my clothing.
- [Illustration: W.S. Nicholson, Esq.] _Gentlemen_ -- In January of '90 took the "grippe," went to work before I was well, was caught in a rain which gave me a very bad relapse, resulting in lung fever and complete prostration; was on my bed two months, and when I did get out, the strength to walk any more than just
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