Presentable
[prɪ'zentəb(ə)l] or [prɪ'zɛntəbl]
Definition
(a.) 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.
(a.) Admitting of the presentation of a clergiman; as, a church presentable.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.
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Examples
- He has been under his valet's hands this morning to be made presentable and is as well got up as the circumstances will allow. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I'm perfectly miserable, but if you consider me presentable, I die happy. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Is he a presentable sort of a person? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- My very shoes and stockings were purified and rendered presentable. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Besides this preliminary outlay, he must be prepared to keep himself for some years, and to hire a presentable carriage and horse. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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