maladie du pays

English

Etymology

From French maladie du pays (“homesickness”).

Noun

maladie du pays (uncountable)

1. (now rare) Homesickness. [from 18th c.]
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     I felt a wish for happiness and thought with melancholy delight of my beloved cousin and 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 […].

French

Noun

maladie du pays f (plural maladies du pays)

1. homesickness (nostalgia)