Covent Garden agueとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

Covent Garden ague (複数形 Covent Garden agues)

1. (archaic, British slang) A venereal disease; a sexually transmitted disease.

同意語

• Barnwell ague, Kentish ague, ladies' fever

関連する語

• Covent Garden abbess, Covent Garden nun

参照

• “Covent Garden ague” in Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: The Ballantyne Press, 1889–1890, pages 275–276.
• Farmer, John Stephen (1891) Slang and Its Analogues‎^[1], volume 2, page 193