catch-cold

It's vile catch-cold weather; the sky itself is sneezing.

Letters of Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

Locke, indeed, than whom no man ever less was acquainted with Greek or Roman life, pretends that the ancients seldom used a pocket-handkerchief; knew little of catarrhs, and even less of what the French consider indigenous to this rainy island -- _le catch-cold_.

The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822

And as to _le catch-cold_, the-most dangerous shape in which it has ever been known, resembling the English _cholera morbus_, belongs to the modern city of Rome from situation; and probably therefore to the ancient city from the same cause.

The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822

It is furnished; but it must be aired, for I would not have her die a paltry catch-cold death.

Anna St. Ives Thomas Holcroft 1777