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 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 Charles W. (William) Wood
For that sudden mirage of the Past had aroused in her the mal du pays.
From The Man with the Double Heart by Muriel Hine
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 Fanny Kemble
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
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