lampas
Americannoun
noun
noun
Etymology
Origin of lampas
1515–25; < Middle French: disease of horses, Old French: disease (of men) with great thirst as symptom
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The bed was hung with yellow lampas, spotted over with large white flowers.
From One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules by Th?ophile Gautier
In fact whenever a horse fails to eat, and if he does not exhibit very marked symptoms of a severe illness, they say at once "he has the lampas."
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
"Are sent to Perkin's Red Rover, sir; but I believe some of them are in calf already by Bullfinch—and I have cut Peter for the lampas."
From Tom Cringle's Log by Michael Scott
The material is very thick, dark silk, a sort of lampas.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various
It is a quite common opinion among owners of horses and stablemen that lampas is a disease that very frequently exists.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
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