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Discover LudwigThe word "penfriend" is a correct and usable term in English.
You can use it when referring to someone you communicate with by writing letters; for example, "I got a penfriend from Italy last year and we still exchange letters every two weeks."
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penfriend
noun
A person, often in a foreign country, with whom one exchanges friendly correspondence but whom one never or rarely meets.
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Last year in prison he married his American penfriend.
Sure, things like Google Translate are great for composing a postcard to a penfriend or looking up the odd word.
Years ago my late grandfather met my school exchange penfriend for the first time.
He married an English penfriend (he has an ad on writeaprisoner.com), but it ended after his hopes of parole evaporated.
One of the saddest stories in this book comes from an unpublished memoir by Miss Amy Langley, a dressmaker sustained all her life by the memory of a single brief encounter at the age of 20 with an Australian penfriend on leave from the Front in 1916.
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