Definitions
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- Capable of being converted into coins.
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- adjective Able to be
coined .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Its air is coinable into wonderful sounds; its light into manifold colors: the trees of it bring forth pippins, and the fields cheese (though both of these may be, in a finer sense, "to come").
On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859
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I remember, decades ago… a Référendum was brewing, in France (Référendums were still a novelty back then: it was not the latest Référendum, the one about la Constitution Européenne, it was a Référendum from long ago) and newspapers editors were doing the usual in such a solemn circumstance: squeezing their brains out for issuing coinable headlines… the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné won hands down (in my opinion) with this simple line: Les congres voteront ouigre… (feel free, dear Petite, to offer your own english translation!)
gros mot 2007
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