Complete Definition of "pertussal"

English
Etymology
From pertussis.

Adjective
en-adj

  1. pertaining to pertussis or whooping-cough

#:*1962: the friendly and eloquent monarch would be interrupted by a pertussal "backdraucht" in a crowd of school-children. � Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

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