Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
will-o'-the-wisp , 1.
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Examples
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The rustle of a silk gown is music to his ears, and his imagination is continuallylantern-led by some will-with-a-wisp in the shape of a lady's stomacher.
Hyperion Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1844
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