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.