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pen friend

British  

noun

  1. another name for pen pal

"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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Twenty years after their unlikely pen pal correspondence comes to a sudden end, Iris is working as a journalist in London and sets about trying to find her pen friend.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2023

"For instance, for years and years, Christopher thought he was a pen friend of French actor Gérard Depardieu," he says, giving just one example of the Edwards' fantasy world.

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2021

We belonged to different divorced and separated clubs; I was the vice-chairman of the one in Portsmouth where I lived, and they used to have a magazine and she advertised for a pen friend.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2017

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