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- noun Plural form of
scrofula .
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Examples
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Are we still living in the monstrous times of the Middle Ages, when vagabonds were permitted to display in our public places leprosy and scrofulas they had brought back from the
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1850
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Are we still living in the monstrous times of the Middle Ages, when vagabonds were permitted to display in our public places leprosy and scrofulas they had brought back from the Crusades?”
Madame Bovary 2003
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