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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of the seven beneficent beings of the Japanese pantheon: represented as a fat, smooth-faced man, with a protruding, naked abdomen, and usually carrying a big hempen bag.

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  • noun one of the 7 gods of happiness

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