coqueluche

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coqueluche

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Borrowed from French coqueluche.

noun coqueluches

obsolete A type of hood historically worn by those infected with whooping cough, to keep a warm head. 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.

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@misc{coqueluche_2026,
  title = {coqueluche},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/coqueluche},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}