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満帆
まんぱん
1. [n]
▶ full sail
▶ sailing downwind



History:
2. A 2022-03-20 22:58:26  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
GG5
  Comments:
A bit repetitive.
  Diff:
@@ -14 +13,0 @@
-<gloss>sail catching ample wind</gloss>
1. A* 2022-03-20 03:08:17  Nora Neko <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
daijirin, shinjirin, shinmeikai

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
満帆	98703
まんぱん	681

seen in a novel, ひぐらしのなく頃に 祟殺し編(2003年)
「北条家は貧しい家庭で、北条氏の仕事も満帆とは言い難かった。」
  Comments:
The word is being used metaphorically in the context that I found it used. None of my dictionaries describe it in that sense, so I'm not sure it would be appropriate to add another sense to this entry based on that alone.

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