dearth, scarcity; a period in which basic necessities such as food are scarce and therefore overly expensive
From Middle Dutch duurte, dierte, from Old Dutch *diuritha, from Proto-West Germanic *diuriþu, from Proto-Germanic *diuriþō. Equivalent to duur + -te.
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