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Date "Blefuscu" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1706. (references) |
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| Literature | Blefuscu An island severed from Lilliput by a channel 800 yards wide, inhabited by pigmies. Swift meant it for France. (Gulliver's Travels.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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| Lilliput and Blefuscu | Lilliput and Blefuscu are two island nations that appear in the 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. Both are portrayed as being in the South Pacific and are inhabited by tiny people who are "not six Inches high". The two are separated by a channel eight hundred yards wide. (references) | ||
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