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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For that sudden mirage of the Past had aroused in her the mal du pays.
From The Man with the Double Heart by Hine, Muriel
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
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.
I always dislike London, and this lovely weather gives me a sort of mal du pays for the country.
From Records of a Girlhood by Kemble, Fanny
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
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