Synonyms

1. letters patent

Sentence Examples

1. They were all the same, with cloth uppers, squared patent leather tips at the toes and heel sections, and laces at the inner ankle.
2. At rumor of his arrival all the Mill-dam sportsmen are on the alert, in gigs and on foot, two by two and three by three, with patent rifles and conical balls and spy-glasses.
3. She dips a carefully manicured hand into her patent leather handbag and extracts her car keys, holding them up like a taunt.
4. Patent leather heels and boisterous chatter echoed on the marble floor as receptionists matched visitors with their attendants.
5. Who, I say again, was the fool that knows not that there are no letters patent of nobility that confer such privileges or exemptions as a knight-errant acquires the day he is dubbed a knight, and devotes himself to the arduous calling of chivalry?
6. There was a stove, a bed, and a place to sit, an infant in the house where it was born, a silk parasol, gilt-framed looking-glass, and a patent new coffee mill nailed to an oak sapling, all told.
7. To this end they procured a royal patent for erecting an academy of projectors in Lagado and the humor prevailed so strongly among the people, that there is not a town of any consequence in the kingdom without such an academy.
8. Even then it had commenced to rise and fall, and had clarified its waters and colored them of the hue they now wear, and obtained a patent of heaven to be the only Walden Pond in the world and distiller of celestial dews.
9. His tall black boots are, by the way, spit-shined, resembling patent leather.
10. There was a great gleaming of yellow and patent leather about the saddle and bridle.