coqueluche

Borrowed from French coqueluche.

coqueluche (plural coqueluches)

1. (obsolete) A type of hood historically worn by those infected with whooping cough, to keep a warm head.
   • 1896, Alphonse Mariette, French and English idioms and proverbs: with critical and historical notes‎^[1], page 104:

     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.

   • 1922, Francis Graham Crookshank, Influenza‎^[2], page 73:

     […] because the sick wore a coqueluche on their heads (as a part of the treatment prescribed) certainly owes its currency to Dr. Short, but he appears to have relied upon the authority of Schenkius […]

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.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.klyʃ/

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coqueluche f (plural coqueluches)

1. (pathology) whooping cough
2. (obsolete, pathology) influenza
3. (figurative) craze, bug (something that "sweeps the nation")
4. (figurative) idol, star, darling
5. (obsolete) coqueluche hood

• vol coqueluche (“treatment method for treating whooping cough symptoms”)

• “coqueluche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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coqueluche f (plural coqueluches)

1. (Jersey) whooping cough
2. (Jersey) whelk

• (whelk): v'lique

From French coqueluche, from Italian coccolucio, from Latin cucullus. First attested in 1840.^[1]

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -uʃi, (Portugal) -uʃɨ
• Hyphenation: co‧que‧lu‧che

coqueluche f (plural coqueluches)

1. (pathology) whooping cough (a contagious disease)

   Synonyms: pertússis, tosse convulsa

2. (figurative, colloquial) craze (a temporary passion for a new amusement or fashion)

   Synonym: febre

• coqueluchoide

• “coqueluche”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “coqueluche”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

Borrowed from French coqueluche.

• IPA^(key): /kokeˈlut͡ʃe/ [ko.keˈlu.t͡ʃe]
• Rhymes: -utʃe
• Syllabification: co‧que‧lu‧che

coqueluche m or f same meaning (plural coqueluches)

1. (pathology) whooping cough [from late 18th c.]

   Synonym: tosferina

• “coqueluche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “coqueluche”, in Diccionario histórico de la lengua española [Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2013, →ISSN