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  2. 2
    British a set of wires that you wear on your teeth to push them into the correct position. The American word is braces.

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    Dentistry: amalgam, brace, bridge, cap, cap, caries, cavity, crown, crown, dentistry... more
  3. 3
    plural brace
    a pair of game birds (=birds killed for sport and then eaten)

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    Groups of specific living things: brace, colony, community, drove, flight, flock, gaggle, herd, hive, litter... more
    1. a.
      literary a pair of people, animals, or objects

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      Specific numbers of people or things: brace, couple, duo, four, foursome, pair, pairing, quartet, quintet, score... more
  5. 5
    a curly bracket

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    Punctuation: ampersand, apostrophe, bad break, brace, bracket, bracket, bullet, bullet point, colon, comma... more

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