Irish hospitality

English

Noun

the Irish hospitality (uncountable)

(obsolete) Gout.
- 1736 December 23, John Boyle Orrery, “To Thomas Southerne”, in Emily Charlotte de Burgh, Countess of Cork, editor, The Orrery Papers, volume I, London: Duckworth, published 1903, page 183:
  Lord Thomond is laid up with the Gout: The Irish Hospitality has broke out in his Feet, and pins him down to a great Chair and a slender Meal.

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