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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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 Yule, Henry
For years and years I was possessed of a fever—that of mal du pays: all I had deliberately thrown away gained a hundred-fold in charm, haunted my mind by day, coloured my dreams.
From Glories of Spain by Wood, Charles W. (William)
Mon Dieu," the little Frenchman sighed, "I have the mal du pays, my friend.
From Pledged to the Dead by Quinn, Seabury
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 Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes
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 Wood, Henry, Mrs.
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