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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It was a dingy apartment, with a single large horse-hair chair and half a dozen small wooden dittoes, placed with mathematical precision along the walls.
From The Firm of Girdlestone by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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
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
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
Jaunty men in loud suits of dittoes have come into the north country, and display fly-books that vie in the variegated brilliancy of their contents with a Dutch tulip bed.
From Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places by Archibald Forbes
