Definitions
GNU Webster's 1913
- Formerly, a wandering mendicant discharged as incurable from Bethlehem Hospital, England; hence, a wandering mendicant, either mad or feigning to be so; a madman; a bedlamite.
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Not quite fictional, but not quite real either - they exist in some kind of mythic dreamspace/otherworld of our shared imagination.
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