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Examples
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Looking round at the extremely small two-roomed hovel, we wondered how it was possible to have _läksiäiset_ or _polterabend_, as our German friends call the festival before the wedding, at this bridegroom's house, for the one little sitting-room and the one little bedroom combined did not cover a larger space of ground than an ordinary billiard table.
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"Ah, then there will be _polterabend_ there today?" asked their father, growing quite lively all of a sudden.
Dame Care Hermann Sudermann 1892
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"I also am going to celebrate _polterabend_, Frau Jankus," he replied, with
Dame Care Hermann Sudermann 1892
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