plague doctor (English, noun)
expansion: plague doctor (plural plague doctors)
Senses:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: 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.
tags: European
Forms:
form: plague doctors
tags: plural