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Definition
describing something as owned — such as a product protected by patent or a name protected by trademark
or:
showing characteristics of ownership
or:
showing characteristics of ownership
- I was surrounded by the stale smut of clubmen, stories to disturb callow youth, ads for transparencies, truedup dice and bustpads, proprietary articles and why wear a truss with testimonial from ruptured gentleman.Episode 15 — Circe (68% in)
There are no more uses of "proprietary" in Ulysses by James Joyce.
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