plage

1. (geography, obsolete) A region viewed in the context of its climate; a clime or zone.Examples: "King Henry and his faction nesteled and strēgthēd him and his alies in the North regions and boreal plage."; "Tam[burlaine]. Kings of Argier, Morocus, and of Feſſe, You that haue martcht with happie Tamburlain, As far as from the frozen place ^([sic – meaning plage]) of heauen, Unto the watrie mornings ruddy hower ^([sic – meaning bower])."; "In the Heauens, they supposed a burning Zone; in the Earth, a Plage [translating Latin plaga], plagued with scorching heats."obsolete

2. (astronomy) A bright region in the chromosphere of the Sun.