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Comice
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Co·mice  (k-ms, k-)
n.
A cultivated variety of pear having greenish-yellow skin blushed with russet-red and yellowish, juicy, fine-textured flesh.

[From French (Doyenne du) Comice, (Dean of the) Show, from comice (agricole), (agricultural) show, from Old French, convention, from Latin comitia; see comitia.]


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24) A recipient of a prize at les comices agricoles (agricultural fair) emphasizes the discharge of manure everywhere present: Monsieur Cullembourg (139).
The comices agricoles or agricultural fair scene in Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857) is not only perhaps the most deliciously satirical passage in all of French literature but a pointed criticism of the whole culture of Exhibitions.
 
 
 
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