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"doublet" Definition

  1. a spurious diamond, made up of two smaller stones for pawning or duffing purposes. These articles are cleverly manufactured and excellently set, and a practised eye can alone detect the imposition.—_See_ MOSKENEER.

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Position in the dictionary: 1046 of 4022 slang words.
Next words in the dictionary: doughy, douse, dove-tart, dovercourt, dowd, dowlas, down, down the road, down to the ground, downer
Previous words in the dictionary: double-shuffle, double up, double lines, double cross, double, dot and go one, dossing-ken, doss, dose, dookin

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