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Definition of Patined
1. patine [v] - See also: patine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patined
Literary usage of Patined
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly by William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Frances Trevelyan Miller (1905)
"He also "patined" them himself, something very up- . usual for a sculptor to do.
In olden times these accomplishments were requisites to the master-sculptor ..."
2. Ethnology by Augustus Henry Keane (1896)
"Since their manufacture many have been deeply patined and rusted sometimes even
right through, in red, yellow, or chalky white colours by physical or ..."
3. A Pushcart at the Curb by John Dos Passos (1922)
"... webs of cities above fields full of golden chime of cowslips above warbling
woods where the ditches are wistfully patined with primroses pale as the new ..."
4. A Pushcart at the Curb by John Dos Passos (1922)
"... webs of cities above fields full of golden chime of cowslips above warbling
woods where the ditches are wistfully patined with primroses pale as the new ..."
5. On the Tibur Road: A Freshman's Horace by Horace, George Meason Whicher (1912)
"Ripe-orange patined, copper's best alloy, No piddling pewter, two per cent, of
tin; And triple-straddling tripods, valor's prize, Contested by the Hellenes, ..."
6. The Tourist's California by Ruth Kedzie Wood (1914)
"... two patined bells are suspended in the horizontal ori- 10 Also reached from
Fallbrook, terminal of a branch railway from Oceanside (20 miles). ..."
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