rash fever

English

Noun

rash fever (plural rash fevers)

1. (obsolete) A type of feverish illness accompanied by a rash. [18th–19th c.]
   • 1790, James Boswell, edited by Danziger & Brady, Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale, published 1989, page 31:

     I dined at my brother T.D.'s, where Veronica and Jamie should have been, but they were both ill, Veronica of a cold, Jamie of the rash fever.