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Calque of Japanese 枕詞 (makurakotoba).
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makurakotoba
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Today it means: In Japanese waka poetry, a poetic device where a certain introductory phrase is commonly used to allude to something else. Full definition →
Japanese 枕詞