Laputa
an imaginary flying island in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, the inhabitants of which engaged in a variety of ridiculous projects and pseudoscientific experiments.
Other words from Laputa
- La·pu·tan, adjective, noun
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How to use Laputa in a sentence
I need scarcely say not into two equal parts; no one out of the island of Laputa could do that.
Hopes and Fears for Art | William MorrisHis third voyage takes him to Laputa, where he sees the philosophers; and on the fourth he visits the land of the Houyhnhnms.
Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year | E.C. HartwellOrivie smiled indulgently as I explained to him that that hole was made by sea-currents when Laputa was under the ocean.
White Shadows in the South Seas | Frederick O'BrienWas it a banquet with joints cut Laputa-like, after some fashion of concepts, or syllogistic figures?
Modern Skepticism | C. J. EllicottWonder if she waits on lodgers—if so, my dinners will be rather like the banquet Gulliver had at Laputa.
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