Dues vs Lues - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between dues and lues

is that dues is plural of lang=en while lues is a plague or disease, especially syphilis.

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(pluralonly) Membership fees.

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(dated, medicine) A plague or disease, especially syphilis.

* 1819 , (Lord Byron), Don Juan , I:

And which in ravage the more loathsome evil is— / Their real lues , or our pseudo-syphilis?

* 1983 , (Lawrence Durrell), Sebastian'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 1031:

There seemed to be no history of lues or any other family illness in the background.

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