Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- That may be tarnished; capable of losing luster.
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- adjective Capable of becoming
tarnished .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And be sure Wada removes all silver and metallic tarnishable stuff from your rooms.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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And be sure Wada removes all silver and metallic tarnishable stuff from your rooms.
Chapter 13 1914
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The lack of sane methods of ventilation also enhances the general dirtiness and dustiness of the present-day home, and gas-lighting and the use of tarnishable metals, wherever possible, involve further labour.
Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought 1906
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How we debase our God-like immortal soul by attaching ourselves to the perishable, tarnishable, fleeting glitter of gold and silver, and by averting our gaze from the higher eternal, all-rejoicing light, or by attaching ourselves to corruptible sweetness that soon passes away, and is harmful and weakening both to soul and body, and turning away our gaze from the eternal, spiritual sweetness; from the sweetness of the intuition of
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And be sure Wada removes all silver and metallic tarnishable stuff from your rooms.
The Mutiny of the Elsinore Jack London 1896
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