Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Anecdote

Anecdote ({not transcribed}) , noun

[French anecdote, from Greek {not transcribed} not published; 'an priv. + {not transcribed} given out, {not transcribed} to give out, to publish; {not transcribed} out + {not transcribed} to give. See Dose, n.]

1.
Unpublished narratives.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.