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- noun the sacred city of Lamaism; known as the Forbidden City for its former inaccessibility and hostility to strangers
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On April 4, 2003, EO 13295 issued a "Revised List of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases" that included cholera, diphtheria, infectious TB, plague, smallpox, yellow fever, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and viral hemorrhagic fevers like ebola and lassa.
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On April 4, 2003, EO 13295 issued a "Revised List of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases" that included cholera, diphtheria, infectious TB, plague, smallpox, yellow fever, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and viral hemorrhagic fevers like ebola and lassa.
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It's a Small World: A man in New Jersey has died of lassa fever, a virus that's common in West Africa, where he had recently travelled.
Archive 2004-09-01 2004
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It's a Small World: A man in New Jersey has died of lassa fever, a virus that's common in West Africa, where he had recently travelled.
Medpundit 2004
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Littera sera quidem, studiis exculte Suilli, huc tua peruenit, sed mihi grata tamen, qua, pia si possit superos lenire rogando gratia, laturum te mihi dicis opem. ut iam nil praestes, animi sum factus amici 5 debitor: et meritum uelle iuuare uoco. impetus iste tuus longum modo duret in aeuum, neue malis pietas sit tua lassa meis. ius aliquod faciunt adfinia uincula nobis
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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The polenta is turned out upon a wooden platter, and cut with a string called _lassa_.
New Italian sketches John Addington Symonds 1866
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Hope sustains me then, whoso scourges, tires; -- (altrui rigor mi lassa)
The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the Second An Ethical Poem Giordano Bruno 1574
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On April 4, 2003, EO 13295 issued a "Revised List of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases" that included cholera, diphtheria, infectious TB, plague, smallpox, yellow fever, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and viral hemorrhagic fevers like ebola and lassa.
Infowars 2009
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Che il troppo pianto a me pianger non lassa.v. 116.
Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete 1265-1321 Dante Alighieri 1293
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_groom_ e da un lato una sentimentale _Lady_, che si è arrampiccata più lassa e prosaicamente seduta sulla sua sedia portatile sta scrivendo una lettera sopra un foglio a vignetta.
qroqqa commented on the word lassa
Hm, I'm not sure that this is a word. It's probably only an element in the words 'Lassa fever' and 'Lassa virus'.
July 8, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word lassa
It's a city, qroqqa. I'm deleting it from my list, but thank you anyway, since you just taught me something :-)
July 8, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word lassa
Yes, I checked for "caught lassa" and "died of lassa", hoping to find people using it to mean "Lassa fever", but they don't.
July 8, 2008