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Definition of Repatched
1. repatch [v] - See also: repatch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Repatched
Literary usage of Repatched
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest; the by Upton Sinclair (1915)
"... mar of BY GILBERT K. CHESTERTON (See page 180) LOW and brown barns, thatched
and repatched and tattered, Where I had seven sons until ..."
2. A History of the Inquisition of Spain by Henry Charles Lea (1887)
"... years he wore but a single gown, patched and repatched as necessity required,
and this with his rope girdle constituted his sole worldly possessions. ..."
3. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1869)
"Engines, rusty from years of idleness, were polished up; leaky boilers were
repatched—paint and putty filling gaping seams; and with names often changed, ..."
4. English Literature by Wilford Merton Aikin, Thomas Ernest Rankin (1917)
"Sartor Resartus" means The Tailor repatched. The book is a sort of "
clothes-philosophy." It pretends to be a translation of a German work which
Carlyle had ..."
5. A Canoe Voyage Up the Minnay Sotor: With an Account of the Lead and Copper by George William Featherstonhaugh (1847)
"... and beneath its ample skirts appeared two odd boots, that had been patched
and repatched so often, that, as he said, they had been made nowhere. ..."
6. Poems of the Great War by John William Cunliffe (1916)
"... FLANDERS Low and brown barns thatched and repatched and tattered Where I had
seven sons until to-day, A little hill of hay your spur has scattered . ..."
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