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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1573, 1632
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Pasturable, -orable, a. [e.m.E. pasturable (1577), obs. F. pasturable (1534 in Godef.).] Fit for pasture; affording pasture. — 1573 Protocol Book of Gilbert Grote 88.
To be pasturit … on his ingers and pasturable landis 1632 Lithgow Trav. (1906) 258.
We pitched our tents in a pastorable plaine
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