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twain number [ tweɪn ]

• archaic term for two.
• "he split the spar in twain"
Origin: Old English twegen, masculine of twā (see two).

never the twain shall meet

• used to suggest that two things are too different to exist alongside each other.
"families were either ‘church’ or ‘chapel’ and never the twain shall meet"

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