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comparative form of plain: more plain examples
plural plainers
A policeman who wears plainclothes. quotations examples
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.
2018, Alan Parks, Bloody January
The plainer, he was from the Marine police station on Anderson Street and Davin or Devine or something was his name — said nothing.
2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 18
A guy and a girl make ideal plainers; nobody gives them a second thought; people just assume they're a couple.
2022, Niall Illingworth, Hard Rain, Cold Hearts