doubleganger

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doubleganger - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Doubleganger \Dou"ble*gang`er\, n. [G. doppelg[aum]nger; doppel
     double + g[aum]nger walker.]
     An apparition or double of a living person; a
     doppelg[aum]nger.
  
           Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger.
                                                    --C. Kingsley.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]