playfellow
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of playfellow
Example Sentences
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I knew that with his lively ways, he would make a fine playfellow.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
She was lamenting the death of her cousin and childhood playfellow, Dr. Valentine Mott Francis, when "a much greater affliction" fell upon her in the death of her son-in-law, David Prescott Hall.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott
The girl's only reply was to hold out her hand to her old playfellow.
From Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 by Charles Paul de Kock
She was only my playfellow; she had never been anything else.
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Queen was always very kind to him, as she had known his grandmother so well, and told me once that Lady Clementina had been her playfellow.
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers
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