"plainer" meaning in English

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  "pos": "adj",
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          "text": "Of the two, she was certainly the plainer."
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          "extra": "more plain",
          "word": "plain"
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        "comparative form of plain: more plain"
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      "homophone": "planar"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "planer"
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      "rhymes": "-eɪnə(ɹ)"
    }
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  "word": "plainer"
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      "form": "plainers",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018, Alan Parks, Bloody January",
          "text": "Three pandas were parked round the edge of the wee swing park, lights spinning, flashing blue on a huddle of plainers over by the iron roundabout.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 18",
          "text": "The plainer, he was from the Marine police station on Anderson Street and Davin or Devine or something was his name — said nothing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Niall Illingworth, Hard Rain, Cold Hearts",
          "text": "A guy and a girl make ideal plainers; nobody gives them a second thought; people just assume they're a couple.",
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        "A policeman who wears plainclothes."
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      "homophone": "planar"
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    {
      "homophone": "planer"
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    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪnə(ɹ)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "plainer"
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      "homophone": "planar"
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    {
      "homophone": "planer"
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    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪnə(ɹ)"
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  ],
  "word": "plainer"
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      "form": "plainers",
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          "text": "Three pandas were parked round the edge of the wee swing park, lights spinning, flashing blue on a huddle of plainers over by the iron roundabout.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 18",
          "text": "The plainer, he was from the Marine police station on Anderson Street and Davin or Devine or something was his name — said nothing.",
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          "text": "A guy and a girl make ideal plainers; nobody gives them a second thought; people just assume they're a couple.",
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        "A policeman who wears plainclothes."
      ],
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      "homophone": "planar"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "planer"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪnə(ɹ)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "plainer"
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