"French disease" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "So called because it was spread by returning French troops in mediaeval times.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Bacterial diseases",
          "orig": "en:Bacterial diseases",
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            "Disease",
            "Health",
            "Pathology",
            "Body",
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            "Human",
            "Biology",
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            "Fundamental"
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          "name": "Sexually transmitted diseases",
          "orig": "en:Sexually transmitted diseases",
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            "Disease",
            "Health",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010 November 30, L. McGough, Gender, Sexuality, and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice: The Disease that Came to Stay, Springer, page 88",
          "text": "Although the Inquisition trials dealing with the French disease are few in number, the cases provide competing opinions about the cause of illness, thereby providing some insights into how the categories of natural and supernatural[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Syphilis."
      ],
      "id": "en-French_disease-en-noun-4GducD-f",
      "links": [
        [
          "Syphilis",
          "syphilis"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, euphemistic) Syphilis."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "euphemistic",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "english": "Neapolitan malady",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "syphilis",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "mal de Naples"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "english": "Italian malady",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "syphilis",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "mal italien"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "english": "Neapolitan scabies",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "syphilis",
          "tags": [
            "archaic",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "gale de Naples"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "english": "French disease",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "syphilis",
          "tags": [
            "dated",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Franzosenkrankheit"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "english": "French malady",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "syphilis",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "mal francés"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "French disease"
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  "etymology_text": "So called because it was spread by returning French troops in mediaeval times.",
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      "expansion": "French disease (uncountable)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "en:Sexually transmitted diseases"
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          "ref": "2010 November 30, L. McGough, Gender, Sexuality, and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice: The Disease that Came to Stay, Springer, page 88",
          "text": "Although the Inquisition trials dealing with the French disease are few in number, the cases provide competing opinions about the cause of illness, thereby providing some insights into how the categories of natural and supernatural[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Syphilis."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Syphilis",
          "syphilis"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, euphemistic) Syphilis."
      ],
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        "dated",
        "euphemistic",
        "uncountable"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "english": "Neapolitan malady",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "syphilis",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mal de Naples"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "english": "Italian malady",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "syphilis",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mal italien"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "english": "Neapolitan scabies",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "syphilis",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gale de Naples"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "english": "French disease",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "syphilis",
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Franzosenkrankheit"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "english": "French malady",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "syphilis",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mal francés"
    }
  ],
  "word": "French disease"
}