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Comprachicos

comprachicos

also: компрачикосами

A term popularized by Victor Hugo's 'The Man Who Laughs' (1869) for a legendary band of child-buyers and mutilators; Chekhov tosses it into his mock-will's inventory of the whole earth's contents as absurdist, faintly sinister exotica.

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