Definitions
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- noun A person, often in a
foreign country , with whom oneexchanges friendly correspondence but whom one never or rarelymeets .
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Examples
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Except I'd intended to write to a penfriend and now finding myself with just time to do one thing I've plumped for this...
Another Friday evening... Imogen 2008
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Except I'd intended to write to a penfriend and now finding myself with just time to do one thing I've plumped for this...
Archive 2008-11-01 Imogen 2008
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Unlike most penfriend relationships, however, this one does not die as the two grow older but becomes more and more intimate.
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His mother is a little looney and the only thing he has to hold onto, his only friend, is Alice, a penfriend who lives somewhere in Sussex.
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It is about Gerard who lives in Mawson, Australia and his penfriend Alice who lives somewhere in Sussex, England.
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I have recieved a charming letter from a little girl in America for whom I have I hope organised a British penfriend.
Archive 2007-02-01 Joanna Bogle 2007
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I have recieved a charming letter from a little girl in America for whom I have I hope organised a British penfriend.
auntie joanna writes Joanna Bogle 2007
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Hey so I'm meeting my penfriend from Portland tonight for beers.
Archive 2006-08-01 esther 2006
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Hey so I'm meeting my penfriend from Portland tonight for beers.
help esther 2006
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Determined to find a way to get myself to France, because my one day trip to St Malo during a family holiday to Jersey was clearly woefully inadequate for French oral purposes, I managed to find a penfriend through a magazine.
French exchange 2004
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