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Noun: Prix de Rome
  1. An annual prize awarded by the French government in a competition of painters and artists and sculptors and musicians and architects; the winner in each category receives support for a period of study in Rome

Type of: accolade, award, honor [US], honour [Brit, Cdn], laurels

Encyclopedia: Prix de Rome