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Bilboquet

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Bil´bo`quet
n.1.The toy called cup and ball.


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It confides an unfledged scion to some head-clerk, or gives him in charge of a directory who initiates him into what Bilboquet, that profound philosopher, called the high comedy of government; he is spared all the horrors of drudgery and is finally appointed to some important office.
Bureaucracy by de Balzac, Honore View in context
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