Münchhausen

[ mynkh-hou-zuhn ]

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noun

Karl Friedrich Hi·e·ro·ny·mus [kah, r, l , free, -d, r, i, kh, hee-ey-, roh, -n, y, -m, oo, s], Baron von [f, uh, n], 1720–97, German soldier, adventurer, and teller of tales.

But never was this experiment so often and so successfully repeated as in the garden of baron de Munchhausen, at Swobber.

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