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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 hair·breadth /ˈhærˌbrɛtθ, ˈhɛr, ˌbrɛθ, ˌbrɛdθ/
 間不容髮的寬度

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Hair·breadth Hair's breadth. The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch. [Also spelled hairsbreadth.]
    Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth and not miss.   --Judg. xx. 16.
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Hair·breadth, a. Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth escape.
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