"hairbreadth" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1799, Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntly",
          "text": "This surely was a day destined to be signalized by hairbreadth escapes.",
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          "ref": "1856, Wilkie Collins, After Dark",
          "text": "Measure Maddalena, and measure Minerva, and from forehead to chin, you won't find a hairbreadth of difference between them.",
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          "ref": "1876, Louisa May Alcott, Rose in Bloom",
          "text": "[…] for the young hero rioted by day, howled by night, ravaged the house from top to bottom, and kept his guardians in a series of panics by his hairbreadth escapes.",
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