Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hospital.
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Examples
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Burn-hag field, and gave order that the wounded should be dressed and had care of in his great hospital or nosocome.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Burn-hag field, and gave order that the wounded should be dressed and had care of in his great hospital or nosocome.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Then those who died there he caused to be honourably buried in Black-soile valley and Burn-hag field, and gave order that the wounded should be dressed and had care of in his great hospital or nosocome.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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