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"etymology_text": "From the image used on Droste cocoa powder, one of the main Dutch brands, of a nurse carrying a serving tray with a cup of hot chocolate and a box with the same image. The company was founded by Gerardus Johannes Droste in 1863.",
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"The effect of a picture appearing within itself recursively, so that the inner picture contains another even smaller picture, and so on."
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