ditto
noun
the aforesaid; the above; the same (used in accounts, lists, etc., to avoid repetition). do. ″.
dittoes
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pluralof ditto.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But what the mischief do you mean—you, with your pretence to culture—by hanging your dwelling with all those framed and glazed photograph and autograph dittoes?
From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
A dot-and-go-one suit of dittoes went for best, so to speak, with his curly red hair, and got the better of it by a long way.
From The Man Who Drove the Car by Sir Max Pemberton
Enter MARIA, disguised in a brown bowler hat and a very tight suit of tweed "dittoes," in which she looks very like the "Male Impersonator" at a Music-hall.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 22, 1892 by Various
And Matilda had come out in the home dress she had worn while she and Maria had been washing up the dinner dittoes.
From What She Could by Susan Warner
Secretaries, servants, wood, charities, which are demanded as rights, and the million dittoes, present such a prospect as is enough to disgust anyone.
From Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States by William Henry Seward
