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Meaning of half-and-half | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

Alternative spelling of half and half.

alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable

Examples

“Accordingly, we went to a public house, near the Theatre, sat ourselves down in a quiet room upstairs on the first floor, and called for a pint of half-and-half, a-piece, and a pipe. “Well, Sir, we put our pipes aboard, and we drank our half-and-half, and sat a talking, very sociably, […]”
“I had some really nice customers—there was a couple who bought only a pint of half-and-half once a week for their coffee—and I had some deadbeats, the kind of people who knew that if they ever paid their bill in full you’d drop them.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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