"plague doctor" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: plague doctors [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} plague doctor (plural plague doctors)
  1. (European history) A physician treating the bubonic plague, or employed simply to collect demographic and epidemiological data, especially one wearing protective clothing including goggles and a mask with a long bird's beak filled with aromatics to ward off the disease. Wikipedia link: plague doctor Tags: European Translations (plague doctor): طبيب الطاعون [masculine] (Arabic), 瘟疫医生 (wan¹ jik⁶ ji¹ sang¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 瘟疫医生 (wēnyì yīshēng) (Chinese Mandarin), ペスト医師 (pesuto ishi) (alt: いしゃ) (Japanese), чумной доктор (čumnoj doktor) [feminine, masculine] (Russian)

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