"Borgesian library" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: Borgesian libraries [plural]
Etymology: After Jorge Luis Borges, who wrote about such a library in his short story The Library of Babel (1941). Head templates: {{en-noun}} Borgesian library (plural Borgesian libraries)
  1. A fictitious vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format, including books resulting from random concatenation of letters, spaces and punctuation marks. Wikipedia link: Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

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