point-device
Americanadverb
adjective
adjective
adverb
Etymology
Origin of point-device
1325–75; Middle English at point devis arranged to a point, i.e., to a nicety, to perfection; see device
Example Sentences
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It was hard upon twelve o'clock when the mirror on the dressing-table assured him that he was at length point-device in the habit and apparel of a gentleman of elegant nocturnal leisure.
From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Vance, Louis Joseph
He was of dapper appearance, point-device in everything, and he reminded you of a perky robin.
From The Certain Hour by Cabell, James Branch
Then an uncomfortable consciousness of a rough black coat, drab trowsers, checked cotton cravat, and splashed boots, forced itself upon him as he saw Osborne's point-device costume.
From Wives and Daughters by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
As tapestry Pricked out by women's needles; point-device As saints in fitted haloes.
From The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q" by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
His friends looked so wretched, so woebegone, so bedraggled, while their captor looked so point-device and self-satisfied that Villon felt a fierce indignation burn within him over the injustices of the world.
From If I Were King by McCarthy, Justin
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