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"word": "nostalgie de la boue"
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"ref": "2013 August 16, Oliver Burkeman, “This is the cutest article”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 20",
"text": "I can't have been the only person, last week, to feel a rush of nostalgia upon learning that Thames Water had removed a bus-sized, 15-tonne lump of food fat (\"mixed with wet wipes\") from the sewers under London. The fatberg was an August news story redolent of the old-fashioned silly season.",
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"ref": "2020 September 9, Priya Elan, “Now-stalgia: why fashion is going back to the future”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
"text": "[…]Rousteing asked: “Is my generation’s nostalgia for our turn-of-the-century childhood culture somehow less cool than fashion’s more familiar fixation on the 70s and 80s?” The answer was a firm “no”: in 2020 all nostalgia is good nostalgia. “The nostalgia economy”, as named by Quartz, is the most powerful trend in fashion since florals or trousers and is a reaction to what’s happening in the world.",
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"ref": "2022 November 15, Dan Hancox, “‘Who remembers proper binmen?’ The nostalgia memes that help explain Britain today”, in The Guardian",
"text": "Though there is nothing generationally unique in the desire to bask in the banalities of your past, these nostalgia communities have flourished on Facebook as its user base has grown ever older in the past decade.",
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"word": "ნოსტალგია"
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"word": "향수"
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"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "gatāturatvaṁ",
"sense": "bittersweet yearning for the things of the past",
"word": "ഗതാതുരത്വം"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "bittersweet yearning for the things of the past",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nostalgi"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "bittersweet yearning for the things of the past",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nostalgi"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "andame",
"sense": "bittersweet yearning for the things of the past",
"word": "اندمه"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "nostâlži",
"sense": "bittersweet yearning for the things of the past",
"word": "نوستالژی"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "bittersweet yearning for the things of the past",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nostalgia"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "bittersweet yearning for the things of the past",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nostalgia"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "bittersweet yearning for the things of the past",
"word": "saudade"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "bittersweet yearning for the things of the past",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nostalgie"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nostalʹgíja",
"sense": "bittersweet yearning for the things of the past",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ностальги́я"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "toská",
"sense": "bittersweet yearning for the things of the past",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "тоска́"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "bittersweet yearning for the things of the past",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "носта̀лгија"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "bittersweet yearning for the things of the past",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "nostàlgija"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "bittersweet yearning for the things of the past",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nostalgia"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "bittersweet yearning for the things of the past",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nostalgija"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "bittersweet yearning for the things of the past",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nostalgia"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "bittersweet yearning for the things of the past",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "añoranza"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "bittersweet yearning for the things of the past",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "nostalgi"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "bittersweet yearning for the things of the past",
"word": "nostalji"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "nostalʹhíja",
"sense": "bittersweet yearning for the things of the past",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ностальгі́я"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "udāsī",
"sense": "bittersweet yearning for the things of the past",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "اداسی"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "bittersweet yearning for the things of the past",
"word": "hoài niệm"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "bittersweet yearning for the things of the past",
"word": "nuối tiếc"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "bittersweet yearning for the things of the past",
"word": "nỗi nhớ"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "bittersweet yearning for the things of the past",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hiraeth"
}
],
"word": "nostalgia"
}
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