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Plagose is a related term of plaga.


As an adjective plagose

is fond of flogging.

As a noun plaga is

(zoology) a stripe of colour.

plagose

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Fond of flogging.
  • * 1868 , Mortimer Collins, Sweet Anne Page (page 23)
  • Now Mary Langton was the only one her grandfather ever petted; whence Miss Harriet's plagose propensity.
  • * 1969 , Robert Lynd, The peal of bells (page 131)
  • Other boys from other schools used to relate their experiences with plagose headmasters and describe how, by laying a hair from a horse's tail across your palm, you could outwit or at least diminish the sting of the cane.
    (Webster 1913)

    plaga

    English

    Noun

    (plagae)
  • (zoology) A stripe of colour.