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  • noun Plural form of dear.

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Examples

  • My last post was on Tuesday and that my dears, is a long time ago.

    Catching up 2008

  • "All will be well, moiy darlin 'dears all manner of things will be well"

    Polly Loves Milly Newmania 2008

  • My last post was on Tuesday and that my dears, is a long time ago.

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • Their problem, poor dears, is that the B&B's don't have full length mirrors.

    UPGRADE TO LAKESIDE 2.0 2005

  • Nothing but a curtain flapping, or a shadder, for the poor dears is sleeping like lambs. '

    An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

  • He needs all his wife's attention this time, and that, my dears, is why little Dora Denise Carman is coming to spend a year with her New Brunswick relations.

    Our Little Canadian Cousin 1904

  • 'What I have now last of all, to say to you, my little dears, is three maxims, which may serve for you all four alike, though I thought of them, at first, only for you two.

    Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth 1796

  • "Well, my dears, that is the pith of the thing," Harry said.

    In the Heart of the Rockies 1867

  • (I always read over the "dears" in your letters a time or two, as you say you do in mine -- only I read all of your letters a time or two!)

    The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown 1918

  • They smiled when he winked and addressed them as "dears,"

    The Best Nonsense Verses Various 1918

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