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​Child

​Child

Child An extract from Brewers Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Child
At one time meant a female infant, and was the correlative of boy.
“Mercy on ‘s! A barne, a very pretty barne. A boy or a child, I wonder?”
Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale
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