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noun 
  1. a former French unit of length, corresponding to about 1.949 metres
  • 1997: the greater its speed, the less visible it grows, until at around a Thousand Toises per Minute, it vanishes entirely " Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
Etymology: French toiseFrench, toise.

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