All 7 Uses
immaculate
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East of Eden
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- In the dusty business of ranching he seemed always immaculate.
Chpt 2immaculate = completely neat and clean
- Charles had moved into a shed where his nostrils would not be assailed by the immaculate but painful smells of lye and soda and ammonia and yellow soap.
Chpt 6 *
- The house was clean, scrubbed and immaculate, curtains washed, windows polished, but all as a man does it--the ironed curtains did not hang quite straight and there were streaks on the windows and a square showed on the table when a book was moved.
Chpt 32
- His picture--never really inspected--had been of clean-eyed young men and immaculate girls, all in academic robes and converging on a white temple on the crown of a wooded hill in the evening.
Chpt 47 *immaculate = perfect (without fault or error)
- The house next to Reynaud's Bakery became warm and dear, Lee the epitome of friend and counselor, his father the cool, dependable figure of godhead, his brother clever and delightful, and Abra--well, of Abra he made his immaculate dream and, having created her, fell in love with her.
Chpt 47
- It was an immaculate and friendly house, grand enough but not pretentious, and it sat inside its white fence, surrounded by its clipped lawn, and roses and catoneasters lapped against its white walls.†
Chpt 31
- He was immaculate.†
Chpt 43
Definitions:
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(1)
(immaculate as in: immaculate timing) perfect (without fault or error)
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(2)
(immaculate as in: the housekeeper left it immaculate) completely neat and clean
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)