Definition of "playfellow" [play•fel•low]

• A playmate. (noun)

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• "We had a Romish chapel, and a Lutheran church in our little village: the priest to whom I confessed, was a man of unaffected piety, fine sense and universal charity: my sweet Agnes, he used to call his playfellow, and seldom took his evening walk without her."
• "Lavenza became my playfellow, and, as we grew older, my friend."
• "Yet you must die; you, my playfellow, my companion, my more than sister."