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Rip Van Winkle

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Rip Van Winkle [ˈrɪp væn ˈwɪŋkəl]
n Informal
1. a person who is oblivious to changes, esp in social attitudes or thought
2. a person who sleeps a lot
[from a character who slept for 20 years, in a story (1819) by Washington Irving]
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Noun1.Rip Van Winkle - a person oblivious to social changesRip van Winkle - a person oblivious to social changes
diehard, traditionalist - one who adheres to traditional views
2.Rip van Winkle - a person who sleeps a lot
sleeper, slumberer - a rester who is sleeping
3.Rip van Winkle - the title character in a story by Washington Irving about a man who sleeps for 20 years and doesn't recognize the world when he wakens


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Better than all, except the 'Conquest of Granada', I liked the 'Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and the story of Rip Van Winkle, with their humorous and affectionate caricatures of life that was once of our own soil and air; and the 'Tales of the Alhambra', which transported me again, to the scenes of my youth beside the Xenil.
The country through which the road meandered, was rich and beautiful; the weather very fine; and for many miles the Kaatskill mountains, where Rip Van Winkle and the ghostly Dutchmen played at ninepins one memorable gusty afternoon, towered in the blue distance, like stately clouds.
Both the world of fashion and the Court of Chancery are things of precedent and usage: oversleeping Rip Van Winkles who have played at strange games through a deal of thundery weather; sleeping beauties whom the knight will wake one day, when all the stopped spits in the kitchen shall begin to turn prodigiously!
 
 
 
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