Nosferatu

//ˌnɒsfəˈɹɑːtuː// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A vampire.

    ""Friend Arthur, if you had met that kiss [...] you would in time, when you had died, have become nosferatu, as they call it in Eastern Europe, and would all time make more of those Un-Deads that so have filled us with horror.""

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of Nosferatu. alt-of

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vampirevampire

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"With adequate lighting, one can easily discern Nosferatu, with his pointed incisors and extremely long-limbed fingers, known as arachnodactyly, from common vampires."

Etymology

Possibly from a Romanian word for vampire (cf. nesuferit). The term achieved popular currency through Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula and F. W. Murnau's 1922 German film Nosferatu. See also: Wikipedia's article on the etymology of the word (and the references there).

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