grippe
- n an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease
- But Philadelphia, only 100 miles away, seemed to have nothing worse than the usual winter run of colds and grippe, with negligible absenteeism and no known cases of Asian flu.
- Or, alternatively, in an inspiring deathbed scene, where the victim appears to be suffering no more than a bad case of la grippe.
- The distressful ailments known to laymen as colds, grippe, flu and viral pneumonia make up a spectrum of illnesses for which doctors have long had fancier names but no cures and .