| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  r sh |
| NOUN: | 1. A skin eruption. 2. An outbreak of many instances within a brief period: a rash of burglaries. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Possibly from obsolete French rache, a sore, from Old French rasche, scurf, from raschier, to scrape, scratch, from Vulgar Latin *r sicre, from Latin rsus, past participle of rdere. See r d- in Appendix I.
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