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Man with a mare (4)

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I believe the answer is:

adam

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'man' is the definition.
(man's name)

'with a mare' is the wordplay.
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'mare' becomes 'dam' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'a' next to 'dam' is 'ADAM'.

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(Other definitions for adam that I've seen before include "One of our common ancestors?" , "who transformed Palladian architecture?" , "neoclassical style" , "Male" , "Eden man" .)

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