Old Poet. betwixt
preposition
Twixt is defined as a shortened version of saying betwixt, which means between.
An example of 'twixt is saying the cup you would like to use is between the red one and the white one.
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twixt
also 'twixt
preposition
Betwixt.
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Preposition
- (literary) Betwixt.
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Sentence Examples
- Wellby, 'Twixt Sirdar and Menelik (London, 1901).
- And this Analogy 'twixt colours, and refrangibility is very precise and strict; the Rays always either exactly agreeing in both, or proportionally disagreeing in both.
- What makes this fact still more certain is the circumstance that a haberdasher in Cheapside living "'twixt Wood Street and Milk Street," two streets on the north side opposite Bread and Friday Streets, described himself as " over against the Mermaid tavern in Cheapside."