coqueluche.
whooping cough
Meaning & usage
whooping cough
influenza
craze, bug (something that "sweeps the nation")
idol, star, darling
coqueluche hood
Where this word comes from
From earlier coqueluchon (“a kind of monk's cowl or hood”), from Italian coccolucio, from Latin cucullus (“hood”). Sufferers of the 1510 influenza pandemic would wear a hood resembling the coqueluchon. The spelling and/or "whooping cough" sense may have been influenced by coq (“rooster”), from the cough evoking a rooster's crow.
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