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  • noun A somnambulist.

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  • noun A somnambulist.

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  • noun archaic A somnambulist.

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French

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  • About her head there was an effulgence as of phosphorus glowing about the circumference of a body of water—as if her life lay through her in ungainly luminous deteriorations—the troubling structure of the born somnambule, who lives in two worlds—meet of child and desperado.

    —Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

    November 19, 2008