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twain /tweɪn  /cardinal number archaic term for two. he split the spar in twain Phrases never the twain shall meet OriginOld English twegen, masculine of twā (see two). An old form of two. The comment never the twain shall meet, suggesting that two things are too different to exist alongside each other, quotes from ‘The Ballad of East and West’ (1892) by Rudyard Kipling: ‘Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.’
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