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German
Etymology
From Haar (“hair”) + -es- + Breite (“breadth”), literally “breadth of a hair”.
Pronunciation
Noun
Haaresbreite f (genitive Haaresbreite, plural Haaresbreiten)
- (colloquial) hair's breadth; whisker (very small distance between two things)
Es hat nur eine Haaresbreite gefehlt und ich wäre vom LKW überfahren worden.- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
1922, Stefan Zweig, Drei Meister:Was Dickens geschaffen hat, steht fest und sicher auf dem jahrhundertalten Fundament der englischen Tradition, beugt sich nie oder nur selten um Haaresbreite über sie hinaus, führt aber den Bau zu unverhoffter Höhe mit einer reizvollen Architektonik empor.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Declension of Haaresbreite
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