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Flying Dutchman

DEFINITIONS OF: Flying Dutchman

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n a phantom ship that is said to appear in storms near the Cape of Good Hope

Type of:
apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow
something existing in perception only

n the captain of a phantom ship (the Flying Dutchman) who was condemned to sail against the wind until Judgment Day

Type of:
apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, specter, spectre
a ghostly appearing figure
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