coqueluche means A type of hood historically worn by those infected with whooping cough, to keep a warm head. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
noun
- A type of hood historically worn by those infected with whooping cough, to keep a warm head.“The coqueluchon or coqueluche was a kind of hood very generally worn at certain periods of the year, which seems to have given its name to the hooping-cough, because those who were attacked by that illness wore a coqueluche or monk's hood to keep their head warm.”