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presentable |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Presentable \Pre*sent"a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. pr['e]sentable.] 1. Capable or admitting of being presented; suitable to be exhibited, represented, or offered; fit to be brought forward or set forth; hence fitted to be introduced to another, or to go into society; as ideas that are presentable in simple language; she is not presentable in such a gown. 2. Admitting of the presentation of a clergiman; as a church presentable. [R.] --Ayliffe. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: presentable adj : fit to be seen; "presentable clothes" From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: PRESENTABLE, adj Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place In Boorioboola-Gha a man is presentable on occasions of ceremony if he have his abdomen painted a bright blue and wear a cow's tail; in New York he may if it please him omit the paint, but after sunset he must wear two tails made of the wool of a sheep and dyed black.
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