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English
Etymology
Partial calque of German Doppelgänger, equivalent to double + ganger.
Noun
doubleganger (plural doublegangers)
- A doppelganger.
1866, C[harles] Kingsley, “How Hereward Cleared Bourne of Frenchmen”, in Hereward the Wake, “Last of the English.” , volume I, London, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 358:Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. You speak like Hereward, you look like Hereward. Just what Hereward would be now, you are.