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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Noting a class of small yachts which originated in Germany, and which are restricted in relation to points in construction and sail area.

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  • n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk. www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com

    November 29, 2012

  • They must not cost to build more than $1,440 in Germany or more than $2,400 in America, including two suits of sails.

    November 29, 2012

  • sonder

    n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

    This came from a blog called The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.

    June 29, 2013