mal du pays
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mal du pays
1770–75; see origin at mal- ( def. ), paesano ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Both Alberti and Tennyson have connected the mal du pays of the human soul for that ancient country of its birth, the mild Saturnian earth from which we sprang, with a sense of loss.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
Talk of the mal du pays, which is said to attack the Swiss when exiled from their country—that is as nothing compared to the heartsickness which clung to Lady Isabel.
From East Lynne by Mrs. Henry Wood
At last, after an absence of a quarter of a century, a feeling crept over me that had every symptom of mal du pays.
From Glories of Spain by Charles W. (William) Wood
If there be any mal de l'écritoire corresponding to mal du pays, Yule certainly had it.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Henry Yule
It was in Savoy that her illness came on—the mal du pays, as they called it.
From The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 1 (of 3) A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood
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