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hairbreadth

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hair⋅breadth

  [hair-bredth, -bretth]
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–noun, adjective
hairsbreadth.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME heere brede; see hair, breadth

hairs⋅breadth

  [hairz-bredth, -bretth, -breth]
–noun
1. a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
–adjective
2. extremely narrow or close.
Also, hair's-breadth, hairbreadth.

Origin:
1575–85
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hair·breadth   (hâr'brědth')   
adj.  Extremely close: a hairbreadth escape.
n.  Variant of hairsbreadth.
hairs·breadth or hair's-breadth   (hârz'brědth')   
n.  A small space, distance, or margin: won by a hairsbreadth.
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