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Definition of Desirables
1. desirable [n] - See also: desirable
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desirables
Literary usage of Desirables
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historical Sketches of the Native Irish and Their Descendants: Illustrative by Christopher Anderson (1830)
"DESIDERATA BOOKS, Or brief Catalogue of desirables for the Native Irish Population.
HAVING endeavoured to collect every particular which might serve to be ..."
2. First Aid to the Young Housekeeper by Christine Terhune Herrick (1900)
"IV KITCHEN desirables THE preceding list may seem meagre, but it should be borne
in mind that it comprises only bare essentials to ordinary good but not ..."
3. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1914)
"Where Normals (whose ancestors on the whole were normal people) marry desirables (whose
ancestors were chiefly normal), the normal partners will prove ..."
4. A Catalogue Raisonnée [sic] of Oriental Manuscripts in the Library of the by William Taylor (1860)
"... homage to the forest goddess to gain desirables; with various other like matters.
The book is of medium thickness, leaves of differing lengths, ..."
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