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ghost character

noun

Definitions

  1. A character who is mentioned as appearing on stage, but does not do anything and seems to…

    A character who is mentioned as appearing on stage, but does not do anything and seems to have no purpose.

    • Beside this detailed information which Hall provides about Matthew Gough, Shakespeare's Gough is a ghost character. There is, indeed, no way in which an audience could pick up who he is when he appears only to be killed immediately.

  2. A kanji included erroneously in the JIS X 0208 character set (not traceable to the…

    A kanji included erroneously in the JIS X 0208 character set (not traceable to the sources used to compile JIS X 0208).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ghost character. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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