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单词 maladie du pays
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maladie du paysn.

Brit. /malaˈdiː duː ˈpeɪ/, U.S. /ˌmæləˈdi du ˈpeɪ/
Forms: 1700s–1800s maladie du pais, 1800s– maladie du pays.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French maladie du pays.
Etymology: < French maladie du pays (1693) < maladie malady n. + du of the + pays country (see pais n.).Not fully naturalized in English.
Now rare.
Homesickness. Cf. mal du pays n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > [noun] > nostalgia > homesickness
country disease1562
Heimweha1721
maladie du pays1749
homesickness1756
nostalgia1756
mal du pays1777
nostalgy1846
channel fever1850
1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 24 Feb. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1310 Pray do not let your maladie du pays hurry you into every étourderie.
1818 M. W. Shelley Frankenstein III. iv. 86 I..longed, with a devouring maladie du pays, to see once more the blue lake and rapid Rhone, that had been so dear to me in early childhood.
1845 Southern Literary Messenger 11 671/2 Many a poor exile, a victim of that heart-breaking maladie du pays, has wept away his life in vague pinings, to behold once more his rugged native hills.
1869 Appletons' Jrnl. 9 Oct. 238 To guard against such melancholy results [sc. inaction and insubordination], it has been found necessary, in the French army at least, to give orders..that any conscript suffering under a marked and serious attack of maladie du pays shall be returned to his home for cure.
1897 G. B. Shaw Let. 5 Aug. (1965) I. 792 The tiredness, by the way, is maladie du pays.
2002 www.bookpage.com 3 Jan. (O.E.D. Archive) All fruit is ripe and your song is sweet. Maladie du pays.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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