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(DAY-zhah VOOH) The strange sensation that something one is now experiencing has happened before: I knew I had never been in the house before, but as I walked up the staircase, I got a weird sense of déjà vu. From French, meaning already seen. | 1 |
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| The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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