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  • noun Plural form of phlegm.

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Examples

  • Do they not make the cut anymore? phlegms on June 29, 2009

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  • It is odd that Montaigne should have hit upon the wine also as among the _subsidia senectuti_; although the sage Michael complains, as you will remember, that old men do not relish their wine, or at least the first glass, because "the palate is furred with phlegms."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

  • Daffy's elixir possesses extraordinary powers in purifying the blood and working off all phlegms, humours, vapours, or rheums.

    Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • When the shepherd and his family who tenanted the house were pitied for their sufferings from the exposure, they said that upon the whole they were less inconvenienced by 'wuzzes and flames' (hoarses and phlegms) than when they had lived by the stream of a snug neighbouring valley.

    Wessex Tales Thomas Hardy 1884

  • When the shepherd and his family who tenanted the house were pitied for their sufferings from the exposure, they said that upon the whole they were less inconvenienced by "wuzzes and flames" (hoarses and phlegms) than when they had lived by the stream of a snug neighbouring valley.

    Stories by English Authors: England Thomas Hardy 1884

  • And seeing that in old age we have our palate furred with phlegms or depraved by some other ill constitution, the wine tastes better to us as the pores are cleaner washed and laid more open.

    The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 09 Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • And seeing that in old age we have our palate furred with phlegms or depraved by some other ill constitution, the wine tastes better to us as the pores are cleaner washed and laid more open.

    The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • (hoarses and phlegms) than when they had lived by the stream of a snug neighbouring valley.

    Wessex Tales 2006

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