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Defoe

[dih-foh]

noun

Daniel 1659?–1731, English novelist and political journalist.

Also, De Foe.

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Defoe (dɪˈfəʊ)

—n
	Daniel. ?1660--1731, English novelist, journalist, spymaster, and pamphleteer, noted particularly for his novel Robinson Crusoe (1719). His other novels include Moll Flanders (1722) and A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)

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