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Definition of Patchable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patchable
Literary usage of Patchable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reminiscences of My Irish Journey in 1849 by Thomas Carlyle (1882)
"The whole country figures in my mind like a ragged coat; one huge beggar's
gabardine, not patched or patchable any longer: far from a joyful or beautiful ..."
2. Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881 by James Anthony Froude (1885)
"... not patched or patchable any longer; far from a joyful or beautiful spectacle.
Went afterwards from Annandale to the Highlands as far as Glen Truim; ..."
3. Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881 by James Anthony Froude (1884)
"The whole country figures in mj' mind like a ragged coat or huge beggar's gaberdine,
not Patched or patchable any longer; far from a joyful or beautiful ..."
4. English Words with Native Roots and with Greek, Latin, Or Romance Suffixes by George Albert Nicholson (1916)
"... guessable, hateable, hireable, learnable, liftable, nameable, patchable,
plough- able, quenchable, ..."
5. Tuberculosis a Preventable and Curable Disease: Modern Methods for the by Siegmund Adolph Knopf (1909)
"This mail is conveyed from one place to another in receptacles made of canvas;
these receptacles are used until they become un- patchable, but are never ..."
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