Plague, The

American  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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 Nuttall, P. Austin

Plague, The, xxvii, xxviii, xxxv, 28, 162, 179 n.,

From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert