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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. fit to be seen;
- Example: "presentable clothes"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Presentable \Pre*sent"a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. pr['e]sentable.] 1. Capable or admitting of being presented; suitable to be exhibited, represented, or offered; fit to be brought forward or set forth; hence, fitted to be introduced to another, or to go into society; as, ideas that are presentable in simple language; she is not presentable in such a gown. [1913 Webster] 2. Admitting of the presentation of a clergiman; as, a church presentable. [R.] --Ayliffe. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

presentable adj 1: fit to be seen; "presentable clothes"
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):

PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place. In Boorioboola-Gha a man is presentable on occasions of ceremony if he have his abdomen painted a bright blue and wear a cow's tail; in New York he may, if it please him, omit the paint, but after sunset he must wear two tails made of the wool of a sheep and dyed black.