vomito
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of vomito
1825–35; < Spanish vómito < Latin vomitus ( see vomitus)
Example Sentences
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A fortnight later a farmer reached the hospital spewing vomito negro�once a recognized sign of yellow jack.
From Time Magazine Archive
The smell of the vomito negro fills the passenger cabin.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
The airsickness bag fills up to the brim with a substance known as the vomito negro, or the black vomit.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
By six o'clock next morning the terrible "vomito" had carried him off.
From Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville by Loyd, Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson)
It was high time to be off, when the yellow fever, the deadly vomito, had thus made its triumphant entry, and was ruling and ravaging like some mighty man of war in a stormed fortress.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various
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