ˈplague-spot
1. A spot on the skin characteristic of the plague, or of some disease so called. Also fig.
| 1711 Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) II. 21 We do not..say of any-one, that he is an ill man, because he has the plague-spots upon him. 1817 Coleridge Biog. Lit. 37 It is..unjust to fix the attention on a few separate..poems with as much aversion as if they had been so many plague-spots on the whole work. 1857–8 Sears Athan. xvii. 147 The plague-spot of sin and imperfection. |
2. A spot or locality infected with plague.
| [1861 F. Nightingale Nursing 22 [This] will enable the finger to be laid at once on the plague spots of the parish.] 1895 Syd. Soc. Lex., Plague spot,..a locality in which any Plague, in the general sense, is rife. |
So ˈplague-ˌspotted a., marked with plague-spots.
| 1897 E. L. Voynich Gadfly (1904) 147/1 What is the worth of your plague-spotted souls, that such a price should be paid for them? |