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Flying Dutchman

  1. a fabled Dutch sailor condemned to sail the seas off the Cape of Good Hope until Judgment Day
  2. his ghostly ship, considered a bad omen by sailors who think they see it

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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