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Laputa

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Noun1.Laputa - a land imagined by Jonathan Swift where impractical projects were pursued and practical projects neglected
fictitious place, imaginary place, mythical place - a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings
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I ventured to offer to the learned among them a conjecture of my own, that Laputa was QUASI LAP OUTED; LAP, signifying properly, the dancing of the sunbeams in the sea, and OUTED, a wing; which, however, I shall not obtrude, but submit to the judicious reader.
Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context
 
 
 
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