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Definition of Repatch
1. patch [v -ED, -ING, -ES] - See also: patch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Repatch
Literary usage of Repatch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"... he would cut it out, repatch his canvass, and work in again. Some of his
pictures have many of these sonnet-marks; but I doubt if the purchasers of the ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1861)
"Old and threadbare they may be, tight and uncomfortable for the bulky proportions
to which he has attained; he will nevertheless patch and repatch them many ..."
3. Modern Men and Mummers by Hesketh Pearson (1922)
"With the active assistance of his cousin, George Wyndham, he then began that
series of actions, hoping not merely to turn the tables on me, but to repatch ..."
4. Modern Men and Mummers by Hesketh Pearson (1921)
"With the active assistance of his cousin, George Wynd- ham, he then began that
series of actions, hoping not merely to turn the tables on me, but to repatch ..."
5. Bobbins of Belgium: A Book of Belgian Lace, Lace-workers, Lace-schools and by Charlotte Kellogg (1920)
"Mothers can patch and repatch, and add in various ways to outer garments; but
after a certain number of washings, undergarments simply disappear, ..."
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