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plague doctor

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.85 in modern English

Syllables
plague -doc-tor
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A physician treating the bubonic plague, or employed simply to collect demographic and epidemiological data, especially one wearing protective clothing including goggles and a mask with a long bird's beak filled with aromatics to ward off the disease.

Inflected Forms

plague doctors (plural)

Questions

What does plague doctor mean?
A physician treating the bubonic plague, or employed simply to collect demographic and epidemiological data, especially one wearing protective clothing including goggles and a mask with a long bird's beak filled with aromatics to ward off the disease.

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