Definition of "miasmata" []

• Irregular plural form of miasma. (noun)

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• "_Here_ you may freeze out all your "miasmata" and surplus bile in ten days, and go to Columbia with nerves well strung and blood well purified."
• "After all those who fought and paid with their lives ... they didn't see us as patriots who fought against the conquering armies, but as evil spirits (miasmata), evil communist spirits as they called us."
• "Doctors walked the streets covered with oiled silk, wearing high wooden shoes as the miasmata, “the pestilence which walketh by noonday,” seeped around them."