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- adjective Impossible to
warm .
Etymologies
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Examples
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We seemed to be hours on our journey through these labyrinths; and when at last we reached our rooms, they were so cold and so unwarmable that we were fain to journey back again, up and down, along and athwart, marching and countermarching past regiments of closed doors, until at length we attained the region of the hotel dining-saloon, where it was at least two or three degrees less cold than elsewhere.
Hawthorne and His Circle Julian Hawthorne 1890
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But the dusting of snow on my lawn, like icing sugar on a mince pie, turned to ice and the room was unwarmable.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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But the dusting of snow on my lawn, like icing sugar on a mince pie, turned to ice and the room was unwarmable.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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