All 4 Uses

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Sweet Far Thing
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She is here at Spence as a scholarship student, sponsored by her wealthy cousins so that she might make an appropriate governess to their children.†
Chpt 1 *
I think an English garden party is quite lovely and appropriate.†
Chpt 1
We have come in simple summer-weight dresses, straw hats perched upon our heads, but she wears an elaborately beaded blue gown more appropriate for a ball.†
Chpt 4
Tom wears a jester's hat, which is far more appropriate than he knows.†
Chpt 4

Definitions:

(1) (appropriate as in: it is appropriate)
suitable (fitting) for a particular situation
(2) (appropriate as in: appropriate from their culture)
to take without asking -- often without right
(3) (appropriate as in: Congress will appropriate funds)
to set aside for a particular use
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)