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Definition 2024

maladie du pays ‎(uncountable)

(now rare) Homesickness. [from 18th c.]
- 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:
  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 […].

maladie du pays f ‎(plural maladies du pays)