twin-born

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twin-born (not comparable)

  1. As though born a twin or twins
    • 1834, L E L, chapter VII, in Francesca Carrara. , volume I, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 72:
      Her expectations were, however, of a more subdued kind—the very depth of a woman's affection casts its own shadow, and love and fear are with her twin-born.