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单词 double letter
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double letter
double letter n. (a) a letter of the alphabet denoting two sounds, as x (= ks), ψ (= πσ); (b) in Printing, two letters combined in one type, as ff, fi; † (c) a letter written on two sheets and charged double postage (obsolete).
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1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. 303 (note) Simonides..devised also these double letters in the Greeke Alphabete (namely ξ. ψ. θ).
1753 Scots Mag. July 328/2 The rates of double letters, are always double; of treble letters, treble.
a1816 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal (rev. ed.) v. ii, in Wks. (1821) II. 135 The postman, who was just coming to the door with a double letter.
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