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Plague, The

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noun

  1. French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.


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Jill Biden, who, like Macron’s wife, is a teacher, received copies of Gustave Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary” and Albert Camus’ “The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2022

Plague, The, is a very malignant kind of highly contagious fever, marked by swellings of the lymphatic glands.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

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