Noun: coqueluche
| Singular | coqueluche |
| Plural | coqueluches |
Sample Sentences
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The coqueluchon or coqueluche was a kind of hood very generally worn at certain periods of the year, which seems to have given its name to the hooping-cough, because those who were attacked by that illness wore a coqueluche or monk's hood to keep their head warm. [1896, Alphonse Mariette, French and English idioms and proverbs: with critical and historical notes, page 104:]
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[…] because the sick wore a coqueluche on their heads (as a part of the treatment prescribed) certainly owes its currency to Dr. Short, but he appears to have relied upon the authority of Schenkius […] [1922, Francis Graham Crookshank, Influenza, page 73:]
Nouns inflected like coqueluche
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French coqueluche. See: French Nouns '
coqueluche'.