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Rinderpest   Listen
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Rinderpest  n.  A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Rinderpest" Quotes from Famous Books



... the place where he left off the Saturday before. Thus he had not, so far, made great headway. His method of making up to Bell had been to drop in at T'nowhead on Saturday nights and talk with the farmer about the rinderpest. ...
— Auld Licht Idyls • J.M. Barrie

... ignorance of the Highland people and their need of more education. Here, again, his eloquence was interrupted by the coachman. "Education," he exclaimed. "What you call education I call the Highland rinderpest." After this the orator was ...
— Memoirs of Life and Literature • W. H. Mallock



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