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twin ship en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of twinship (One of two ships with the same design)
    alt of twinship
    • Such an one was the old Truelove, a barque of two hundred and ninety tons, built at Philadelphia just one hundred and five years before she was delivered to the ship-breakers; and the Brotherly Love, which ought to have been a twin ship, and, in fact, enjoyed a twin existence 1879, “Broken Up”, in All the Year Round, volume 22, page 595:
    • When a technical lest of a new cruise ship delayed its maiden voyage and resulted in lost bookings, Holland-America Company responded to the negative publicity by launching an aggressive campaign supporting the first voyage of a twin ship. 1945, David P. Bianco, PR news casebook: 1000 public relations case studies, →ISBN, page 375:

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