Twynne

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Obsolete spelling of twin. alt-of, obsolete

    "c. 1600, Parish Church of Leeds, 1891, The Registers of the Parish Church of Leeds: 1572 to 1612, page 153, Thomas, child of James Smythe, without Lydynte (being one of the twynnes)."

Verb
  1. 1
    Obsolete spelling of twin. alt-of, obsolete

    "Her twynning cherries ſhall their ſweetnes fall / Upon thy taſtefull lips,"

Example

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"c. 1600, Parish Church of Leeds, 1891, The Registers of the Parish Church of Leeds: 1572 to 1612, page 153, Thomas, child of James Smythe, without Lydynte (being one of the twynnes)."

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