patent
/ˈpætənt/ adjective C2- Conspicuous; open; unconcealed.
- Of flour: fine, and consisting mostly of the inner part of the endosperm of the grain from which it is milled.
- Open, unobstructed; specifically, especially of the ductus arteriosus or foramen ovale in the heart, having not closed as would have happened in normal development. · She has a patent ductus arteriosus that will require surgery to close.
- Of an infection: in the phase when the organism causing it can be detected by clinical tests.
- Explicit and obvious. · Those claims are patent nonsense.
- Of a branch, leaf, etc.: outspread; also, spreading at right angles to the axis.
- Protected by a legal patent. · a patent right patent medicines
- To which someone has, or seems to have, a claim or an exclusive claim; also, inventive or particularly suited for.
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Chandler’s patent leather shoes to the edge of his low-cut vest.
Finally, he sniffed the dead man’s lips, and then glanced at the soles of his patent leather boots.
Patent-leather boots had gone round, and Square-toes had hopped over.
“Patent-leathers and Square-toes came in the same cab, and they walked down the pathway together as friendly as possible—arm-in-arm, in all probability.
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