second-hand en · ADJ
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Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative spelling of secondhand.
alt of secondhand
Her youth had passed in intrigues and vanities, and she still lived among them at second-hand: she now talked what she formerly did.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Gossipping”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 93: