"half dozen" meaning in English

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          "name": "Historical numbers",
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
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          "name": "Six",
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          "name": "Size",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "baker's half dozen"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:",
          "text": "The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A set of six."
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "half-dozen"
        },
        {
          "word": "half a dozen"
        }
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "6",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "půltucet"
        },
        {
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "6",
          "word": "duondekduo"
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "6",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "demi-douzaine"
        },
        {
          "code": "gv",
          "lang": "Manx",
          "sense": "6",
          "word": "lieh-ghussan"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "6",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "meia dúzia"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "6",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "halvdussin"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "half dozen"
}

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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "baker's half dozen"
    }
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  "forms": [
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      "tags": [
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          "ref": "1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:",
          "text": "The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.",
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "half-dozen"
    },
    {
      "word": "half a dozen"
    }
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "6",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "půltucet"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "6",
      "word": "duondekduo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "6",
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        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "demi-douzaine"
    },
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      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "6",
      "word": "lieh-ghussan"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "6",
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        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "meia dúzia"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "6",
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      "word": "halvdussin"
    }
  ],
  "word": "half dozen"
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