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- Marked by successive eruptions of boils.
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knitandpurl commented on the word furunculous
"I'm wondering whether it wouldn't also be human to apply a similar treatment to you; you would thus be spared a furunculous and degraded youth."
Witch Grass by Raymond Queneau, translated by Barbara Wright, p 53 of the NYRB paperback
November 5, 2010