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doubleganger

noun

doubleganger

noun

Etymology Partial calque of German Doppelgänger, equivalent to double + ganger.

1

A doppelganger.

  • 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.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:

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