plague spot

1. 1.

   a spot on the skin characteristic of the plague

   Broadermacule

Questions about plague spot

What does plague spot mean?

plague spot means "a spot on the skin characteristic of the plague".

Is plague spot a common word?

plague spot is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.