Well-wearing

ppl. a. [WEAR v.¹ 15.]

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a. 1568. [see WEAR v.¹ 15].

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1803. Syd. Smith, Wks. (1859), I. 29/1. A man … composed of those well-wearing materials, which adapt a person for situations where genius and refinement would only prove a source of misery and of error.

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1824. Miss Mitford, Village, I. 55. One is never thoroughly sociable with flowers till they are … provided with decent, homely, well-wearing English names.

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