"wanderstar" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1994, Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror:",
          "text": "He had thumbed about in Chants of a Wander-Star last night in bed and wondered about the career of that marginal versifier — born out of his proper time and now remembered by Ackley in an era even less proper.",
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          "ref": "2003, Poul Anderson, Mother of Kings:",
          "text": "A thin scythe of moon was rising, near the white wanderstar of dawn or dusk.",
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          "text": "He passed gulls, terns, cormorants as if they were standing still. Now and then a wander-star crossed the heavens: one of the metal eyes the ancients hung over Alifros to spy on their enemies.",
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