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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Anecdote \An"ec*dote\, n. [F. anecdote, fr Gr ? not published;
'an priv. + ? given out ? to give out to publish; ? out + ?
to give See {Dose}, n.]
1. pl Unpublished narratives. --Burke.
2. A particular or detached incident or fact of an
interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a
single passage of private life.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
anecdote
n : short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
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