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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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