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lumbago
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Definition:lower back pain
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July 25th, 1827 Canning is gone to Chiswick, where he has had the lumbago, and could not go to the Council last week. He is very unwell, and in a very precarious state, I think.
Charles Greville. The Greville Memoirs, volume 1
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Well, bless her heart, she had lumbago, and she had rheumatism, too, and she did take a little whiskey for it.
Marilynne Robinson. Gilead, p.76 (2004)
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“My wife used to iron my back for me,” he remarked, “for the lumbago. [...]”
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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"She thinks [smoking] gives you dyspepsia, sleeplessness, headache, weak eyes, asthma, bronchitis, rheumatism, lumbago, and sciatica and brings you out in red spots."
P. G. Wodehouse. The Girl in Blue, p.54 (1971)
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Anne Kearns has the lumbago for which she rubs on Lourdes water, given her by a lady who got a bottleful from a passionist father.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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