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What's quinsy?
(kwin' zē)
Tonsillitis - an acute inflammation of the tonsils.
Yulka forgot to give me back my comforter, and I had to drive home directly against the wind. The next day I came down with an attack of quinsy, which kept me in the house for nearly two weeks.
From Willa Cather's My Ántonia
(kwin' zē)
Tonsillitis - an acute inflammation of the tonsils.
Yulka forgot to give me back my comforter, and I had to drive home directly against the wind. The next day I came down with an attack of quinsy, which kept me in the house for nearly two weeks.
From Willa Cather's My Ántonia