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A surface appearance (as a coloring or mellowing) of something grown beautiful especially with age or use.

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Usage examples (8)
  • He may even be the Anti-Christ himself, in a deception like Pal patine pulled on the Republic in Star Wars, revenge of the Sith!
  • Hugh de Pateshall walked before with the patine, clothed in a dalmatica; and the Earls of Chester, Lincoln, and Warren, bearing the swords, preceded him.
  • If I have any such, I will not cast it on the road as I walk, but present it on a fair patine to him to whom I may think it well to show it.
  • Her mouth, tender and rather full, seemed to smile a welcome, and the patine, unspoiled by any casts having ever been taken, gleamed as the finest of skin.
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