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/flˈaɪɪŋ dˈətʃmən/ Listen

Flying Dutchman

noun

The captain of a phantom ship (the Flying Dutchman) who was condemned to sail against the wind until Judgment Day.

A phantom ship that is said to appear in storms near the Cape of Good Hope.

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"Flying Dutchman" Quotes from Famous Books

... subject. Some quoted cases in point, of ships seen off the coast of New-England, navigated by witches and goblins. Old Hans Van Pelt, who had been more than once to the Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope, insisted that this must be the Flying Dutchman which had so long haunted Table Bay, but, being unable to make port, had now sought another harbour. Others suggested, that, if it really was a supernatural apparition, as there was every natural ...

— Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists • Washington Irving

... to be sure, in extravagant terms. Wagner is a mere ghoul and impostor: "The Flying Dutchman" is no more than a parody on Weber, and "Parsifal" is "an outrage against religion, morals and music." Daddy Liszt is "the inventor of the Liszt pupil, a bad piano player, a venerable man with a purple nose—a Cyrano de Cognac nose." Tschaikowsky is the Slav gone crazy on vodka. ...

— A Book of Prefaces • H. L. Mencken

Words linked to "Flying Dutchman" : shadow, phantasm, phantom, fantasm, spectre, phantasma, specter, apparition