Usually means: Japanese festival celebrating star-crossed lovers.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Tanabata)

noun:  An annual Japanese festival, starting on 7 July, celebrating the meeting of the deities Orihime and Hikoboshi (represented by the stars Vega and Altair), said to be separated at other times by the Milky Way.

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