Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a coating, covering, or sheen; patinated. Used especially to describe the corrosive green layer that forms on copper and its alloys.
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- adjective Having a
patina .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It was patinaed with drawings of genitalia that had been scratched into the paint.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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It was patinaed with drawings of genitalia that had been scratched into the paint.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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It was patinaed with drawings of genitalia that had been scratched into the paint.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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On that trip into farm country, I was surprised to see the number of well-patinaed Dodge Ram trucks on the highway.
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On that trip into farm country, I was surprised to see the number of well-patinaed Dodge Ram trucks on the highway.
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With its raw concrete patinaed by green mildew, rusting corrugated steel and neglected stretches of fence bent by fallen trees, Las Pozas feels like a Sleeping Beauty castle arrested in time before it was quite finished.
Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico 2000
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The compact was twenty-five to thirty yards away, headed down the bayou in the direction of the church, the license plated patinaed with mud.
Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002
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She wore cotton gloves, a denim dress with huge pockets for garden tools, and rubber boots patinaed with mud.
Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002
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With its raw concrete patinaed by green mildew, rusting corrugated steel and neglected stretches of fence bent by fallen trees, Las Pozas feels like a Sleeping Beauty castle arrested in time before it was quite finished.
Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico 2000
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With its raw concrete patinaed by green mildew, rusting corrugated steel and neglected stretches of fence bent by fallen trees, Las Pozas feels like a Sleeping Beauty castle arrested in time before it was quite finished.
Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico 2000
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