[F. flacherie (Littré, Supp.) a disease of silkworms.] = FLACCIDITY 2.
1885. Lady Claud Hamilton, trans. Life Pasteur, 152. Pasteur could not doubt that he had before his eyes a characteristic specimen of the disease called morts-flats, or flacherie.
1888. E. A. Butler, Silkworms, v. 71. It is possible for flacherie to become hereditary.
