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Middle English
Noun
fleume
- Alternative form of flewme
Old French
Etymology
Latin phlegma < Ancient Greek φλέγμα (phlégma).
Noun
fleume oblique singular, f (oblique plural fleumes, nominative singular fleume, nominative plural fleumes)
- phlegm (one of the four elements of the body)
1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine):Item on peult demander se la fleume se peult adurcir- One can ask oneself if the phlegm will harden
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