diff --git a/Doc/library/collections.rst b/Doc/library/collections.rst
index ce47bd0..ef1bca2 100644
--- a/Doc/library/collections.rst
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@@ -361,6 +361,15 @@
       ``d.appendleft(d.pop())``.
 
 
+   Deque objects also provide one read-only attribute:
+
+   .. attribute:: maxlen
+
+      Maximum size of a deque or *None* if unbounded.
+
+      .. versionadded:: 2.7
+
+
 In addition to the above, deques support iteration, pickling, ``len(d)``,
 ``reversed(d)``, ``copy.copy(d)``, ``copy.deepcopy(d)``, membership testing with
 the :keyword:`in` operator, and subscript references such as ``d[-1]``.  Indexed