Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cultivated variety of pear having juicy, fine-textured flesh and greenish-yellow skin with a russet-red blush.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Penny raved about her Comice Pear "Autumn Salad," with persimmons, pomegranates and walnut praline powder.
Jay Weston: Wolfgang Puck at Hotel Bel Air Restaurant Is Extraordinary Jay Weston 2011
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"The market for red Comice pears is small, and they've got the tonnage," Mr. Naumes said.
Harry & David Bankruptcy Filing Creates Ripple Effects Joel Millman 2011
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Penny raved about her Comice Pear "Autumn Salad," with persimmons, pomegranates and walnut praline powder.
Jay Weston: Wolfgang Puck at Hotel Bel Air Restaurant Is Extraordinary Jay Weston 2011
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Penny raved about her Comice Pear "Autumn Salad," with persimmons, pomegranates and walnut praline powder.
Jay Weston: Wolfgang Puck at Hotel Bel Air Restaurant Is Extraordinary Jay Weston 2011
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In one sitting, he was said to have put away a hundred oysters, four bottles of white wine, a dozen salt-meadow lamb cutlets, duckling with turnips, a brace of roast partridge, a Normandy sole, dessert and Comice pears.
Like Dining With Rabelais Moira Hodgson 2011
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Penny raved about her Comice Pear "Autumn Salad," with persimmons, pomegranates and walnut praline powder.
Jay Weston: Wolfgang Puck at Hotel Bel Air Restaurant Is Extraordinary Jay Weston 2011
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Add 2 minced onions, 1 pound of peeled and chopped sunchokes, 1 cubed russet potato and 2 cubed Comice pears.
Savoring the Fruits of Fall Pervaiz Shallwani 2010
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Mr. CLEMENS: Once again, Mr. Comice (ph), I think he misremembers the conversation that we had.
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The recipe called for Comice pears, but I was only able to find red Anjou pear.
Archive 2007-02-01 Nupur 2007
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Doyenne du Comice pears, with their distinctive Chanel No. 5 fragrance, do well in gardens north of Toronto, Canada.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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