Definitions
Etymologies
- French, from Old French, claw, quarrel, from gripper, to seize, grasp, from Frankish *grīpan.
Examples
“Anna Pavlovna had been coughing for several days, and had what she called the grippe (grippe then being a new word, used only by the few), and therefore had not attended at court nor even left the house.”
“The grippe has been the most fruitful cause of middle-ear inflammation and earache in recent years.”
“She said for one thing, that it was the hard-boiled eggs and the state of the house that did it, and when I said that the grippe was a germ, she retorted that I had probably brought it to her on my clothing.”
“Ordinarily, the so-called "grippe" is a common, mixed infection -- not true influenza.”
“The 'grippe' has gripped us here most universally, and no wonder, considering our most exceptional weather; and better the grippe than the fever which preceded it.”
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“I seem to have lost much of my grip since I had "grippe" in 1892.”
Address Before The Second Biennial Convention Of The World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union
“[Illustration: W.S. Nicholson, Esq.] _Gentlemen_ -- In January of '90 took the "grippe," went to work before I was well, was caught in a rain which gave me a very bad relapse, resulting in lung fever and complete prostration; was on my bed two months, and when I did get out, the strength to walk any more than just”
“[Illustration: W.S. Nicholson, Esq.] _Gentlemen_ -- In January of '90 I took the "grippe," went to work before”
“The "grippe," as it is called, touched me at Vienna when on my way from the Holy Land, but I felt it only half a day, and never again since.”
“The Minot Daily News and Optic Reporter, as it was known then, published an editorial Oct. 2, 1918, telling its readers that the best defense against the "grippe" was to forget about it.”
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