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circular tale

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: a factitious jocular narrative indefinitely repeated in which the last element leads to repetition of the first

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“Circular tale.” The Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/circular%20tale. Accessed 24 January 2020.

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