All 3 Uses of
specimen
in
Main Street
- Ella Stowbody had once gone to a Jolly Seventeen Soiree in the village hack, hitherto confined to chief mourners at funerals; and Harry Haydock and Dr. Terry Gould always appeared in the town's only specimens of evening clothes.†
Chpt 7
- He was, in fact, a museum specimen of what a small town, a well-disciplined public school, a tradition of hearty humor, and a pious mother could produce from the material of a courageous and ingenious mind.†
Chpt 9 *
- She was magnificently a specimen of the illiterate divorcee of forty made up to look thirty, clever, and alluring.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
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(specimen) an example thought to represent its type; or a bit of tissue, blood, or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes