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caressable more caressable most caressable

Worttrennung:

ca·ress·a·ble

Aussprache:

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Hörbeispiele:

Bedeutungen:

[1] leicht gerne zu haben, Zuneigung kann leicht gegeben werden

Beispiele:

[1] "We all of us like the caressable, but we most of us in the long run prefer the woman to the statue… That is the trouble with the caressable in art. The caressable is always a substitutue."[1]
[1] "In painting he does not rely upon the likeness to a beloved grandmother or to a caressable mistress."[2]
[1] "The little dog could always be caught there, in a caressable state of exhaustion or meditation, for, sooner or later, he returned to the spot from every bit of work or play."[3]

Übersetzungen

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[1] Dictionary.com Englisch-Englisches Wörterbuch, Thesaurus und Enzyklopädie „caressable

Quellen:

  1. Ezra Pound: A Memoir of Gaudier-Brzeska. In: A New Directions book. 372, New Directions Publishing, 1970, ISBN 9780811205276
  2. Lawrence Rainey: Modernism: An Anthology. In: Blackwell Anthologies. John Wiley & Sons, 2005, ISBN 9780631204480, Seite 98
  3. Eleanor Atkinson: Greyfriar's Bobby. Wildside Press LLC, 2007, ISBN 9781434483720