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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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