BLUE COMB Definition & Meaning

blue comb

noun

Veterinary Pathology.

a disease of birds resembling Bright's disease in humans affecting especially domestic fowl, characterized by fever, sunken eyes, and shriveling of the skin of the wattles, shanks, and comb.

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Origin of blue comb¹

First recorded in 1940–45

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At last the precious contents of the box were revealed—a white chiffon dress, delicately broidered with tiny gold beads, with a twisted girdle of blue with cloth of gold, a dainty blue comb set with brilliants.

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As she spoke, she undid the towel about her head, and she took a blue comb from her white hair: and she showed Jurgen what was engraved on the comb.

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The only species of guinea-fowl that I have seen in Africa is that with the blue comb and wattles.

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