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; device
Example Sentences
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He liked the extremes between the edged satire and nervous force of the young lawyer whose dress and appearance was always point-device, and whose message was always "Carthago delenda est," and the great sonorous voice of the rougher man who knew the hearts of the mob and how to reach them.
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Inside the office of the chief sat Morgan Wallifarro, point-device as ever, and over his desk the chief bent, listening with an attitude of deference to what he said.
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Why, in this clever age, So "point-device," Is there no beverage Cool, cheap, and nice?
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Great palaces without comparison, Most glorious of outward sight, 188 And within decked point-device,117 More like unto a paradise Than an earthly habitation.
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He thinks that it is borrowed from the labours of the needle, as we have point-lace, so point-device, i. e., point, a stitch, and devise, devised or invented; applied to describe anything uncommonly exact, or worked with the nicety and precision of stitches made or devised by the needle.—Illustrations of Shakspeare, i.
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