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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Anecdote \An"ec*dote\, noun [F. anecdote, fr. Gr. ? not published; 'an priv. + ? given out, ? to give out, to publish; ? out + ? to give. See {Dose}, noun]
1. pl. Unpublished narratives. --Burke.
2. A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
anecdote
noun: short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
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