compleat
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of compleat
1875–80; earlier spelling of complete, used phrasally in allusion to The Compleat Angler ( def. )
Example Sentences
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He still keeps studios in Europe, and, at 49, remains the compleat internationalist.
From Time Magazine Archive
For in her own right Streisand is the compleat clown, psychologically foiling the world by supplying her own banana peels to slip on.
From Time Magazine Archive
The medley is the most technically demanding event in swimming, requiring mastery of four separate strokes and three different types of turns—the test of the compleat swimmer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today, Brillat-Savarin's book is to cooking what Izaak Walton's The Corn-pleat Angler is to fishing: that is to say, a rambling, undisciplined, coy and compleat bore.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Joseph Whipple met Ona, however, he was convinced of her “thirst for compleat freedom.”
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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