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double-double

British  

noun

  1. a cup of coffee served with two helpings of cream and sugar

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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This last, however, hits Spithridates, who is, as it has been and will be seen, the souffre-douleur of the book, much harder.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George

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