diff --git a/pandas/core/frame.py b/pandas/core/frame.py
index 8ee65949e6bc1..988183835b7f0 100644
--- a/pandas/core/frame.py
+++ b/pandas/core/frame.py
@@ -2726,7 +2726,8 @@ def duplicated(self, subset=None, take_last=False):
             Only consider certain columns for identifying duplicates, by
             default use all of the columns
         take_last : boolean, default False
-            Take the last observed row in a row. Defaults to the first row
+            For a set of distinct duplicate rows, flag all but the last row as duplicated. 
+            Default is for all but the first row to be flagged
         cols : kwargs only argument of subset [deprecated]
 
         Returns