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pityriasis (medicine) and Lancashire (iou)


pityriasis (medicine)


pityriasis
<dermatology> A name originally applied to a group of skin diseases characterised by the formation of fine, branny scales, but now used only with a modifier.

Origin: Gr. Pityron = bran


Lancashire (iou)



Lancashire noun. L16.
[A county in NW England.]
Used attrib. to designate things made in or associated with Lancashire. L16.
Lancashire hotpot a dish of meat, onion and potato, resembling Irish stew.
b. In full Lancashire cheese. A white semi-hard cheese. L19.
a. A breed of shorthorn cattle from Lancashire; an animal of this breed. M19.
b. A variety of canary developed in Lancashire, with pale yellow plumage. L19.