Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
playfellow .
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Examples
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Here also lived the "playfellows" -- the monks over fifty years of age -- who were told nothing unpleasant, were freed from the ordinary rules, and were permitted to enjoy the privilege of censuring anything they heard or saw.
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We were affectionate playfellows during childhood, and, I believe, dear and valued friends to one another as we grew older.
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We were affectionate playfellows during childhood, and, I believe, dear and valued friends to one another as we grew older.
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No question but from childhood she had read her playfellows rightly, known the one who owned the right to her but valued it lightly, and the one who contained the gnawing grief of loving her and knowing her to be pledged to the foster, brother he loved only a little less.
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Such at least was my experience more than once, for Mr. McNanly particularly favored my mother's house, because of a former acquaintanceship in Ireland, and many a time a comparison of notes proved that I had been in the woods with two playfellows, named Binckly and Greiner, when the master thought I was home, ill, and my mother, that I was at school, deeply immersed in study.
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As you might imagine I have made all sorts of new playfellows ... see the love letters I quote below.
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As you might imagine I have made all sorts of new playfellows ... see the love letters I quote below.
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As you might imagine I have made all sorts of new playfellows ... see the love letters I quote below.
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Johan: Yesterday you seemed to avoid me, so that I never managed to have a word with you — we two old playfellows.
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Be as churlish as you list — I never quarrel with my customers — my jerry come tumbles, my merry dancers, my little playfellows, as
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