plage

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/pleɪd͡ʒ/

Definition of plage

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noun

(obsolete)A region viewed in the context of its climate; a clime or zone.

“King Henry and his faction nesteled and strēgthēd him and his alies in the North regions and boreal plage.”
“Tam[burlaine]. Kings of Argier, Morocus, and of Feſſe, You that haue martcht with happie Tamburlain, As far as from the frozen place ^([sic – meaning plage]) of heauen, Unto the watrie mornings ruddy hower ^([sic – meaning bower]).”
“In the Heauens, they supposed a burning Zone; in the Earth, a Plage [translating Latin plaga], plagued with scorching heats.”

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noun

(obsolete)A region viewed in the context of its climate; a clime or zone.

“King Henry and his faction nesteled and strēgthēd him and his alies in the North regions and boreal plage.”
“Tam[burlaine]. Kings of Argier, Morocus, and of Feſſe, You that haue martcht with happie Tamburlain, As far as from the frozen place ^([sic – meaning plage]) of heauen, Unto the watrie mornings ruddy hower ^([sic – meaning bower]).”
“In the Heauens, they supposed a burning Zone; in the Earth, a Plage [translating Latin plaga], plagued with scorching heats.”
A bright region in the chromosphere of the Sun.

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From French plage, from Late Latin plagia, from Latin plaga (“region”) (cognate with English flake). Doublet of playa.

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