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double first en · NOUN
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(Ireland, UK) A first-class degree in both classics and mathematics.
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(Ireland, UK) One who achieves such a degree.
Chess-playing requires complete abstraction, and Nigel, though he was a double-first, occasionally lost a game from a lapse in that condensed attention that secures triumph
1880, [Benjamin Disraeli], Endymion […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
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