All 3 Uses of
measles
in
The Fountainhead
- You'll cook his Cream of Wheat, launder his handkerchiefs and bear his children, though of course the children will all have measles at one time or another, which is a nuisance.†
Chpt 2.4 *
- She would cook his breakfast, even though they had a maid; she would prepare his favorite dish—French pancakes, the kind he had liked so much when he was nine years old and sick with the measles.†
Chpt 4.7
- All the conventional things, I suppose, everybody goes through them, like measles.†
Chpt 4.10
Definition:
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(measles) a highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children