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Noun: Lessing  le-sing
  1. English author of novels and short stories who grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) (born in 1919)
    - Doris Lessing, Doris May Lessing
     
  2. German playwright and leader of the Enlightenment (1729-1781)
    - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Type of: author, dramatist, playwright, writer

Encyclopedia: Lessing Lessing, Doris Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim

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