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	German	English
	Dieses Kunstwort, das der britische Schriftsteller und Kunstsammler Horace Walpole im 18. Jahrhundert prägte, steht für die Kunst oder das Vergnügen, etwas zu finden, was man nicht gesucht hat. [G]	This word, coined by the British writer and art collector Horace Walpole in the eighteenth century, represents the art or pleasure of finding something one was not looking for.
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