单词 | plague ship |
释义 | plague shipn.2 A ship whose crew and passengers are infected with the plague or a similar disease. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > vessel with disease on board plague ship1820 pest ship1895 1820 A. B. Faulkner Treat. Plague iii. 59 There were serious reasons for the panic occasioned by the admittance of the Plague-ship. 1832 Bristol Job Nott 26 July 130/3 They [sc. reminders of cruelties perpetrated during the French Revolution] are like the yellow flag, hoisted at the mast head of a plague-ship, to guard the uninfected from approaching. 1836 Times 11 Oct. 3/7 The new Lieutenant-Governor arrived in the colony, most appropriately, in a plague-ship. 1886 ‘E. Douglas’ Phantasmagoria 62 As a plague-ship by the brine-blast driven Breaks the white wave curled. 1928 Sci. Monthly June 492/2 Fumigation is reserved only for plague ships, and is not destructive. 1990 Illustr. London News Christmas No. 101/3 When she was found the plague-ship was ‘as silent as the tomb’ and ‘as deserted as the pest-house’. 2005 Independent 28 May 8/1 Two years earlier the Aurora was dubbed ‘plague ship’ by the media when a similar outbreak struck passengers. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.21820 |
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