blanquettes

Updated: May 28, 2025

Then came the pears the "blanquettes," the "British queens," the "Beurres," the "messirejeans," and the "duchesses" some dumpy, some long and tapering, some with slender necks, and others with thick-set shoulders, their green and yellow bellies picked out at times with a splotch of carmine.

Émile Zola - The Fat and the Thin