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English
Adjective
palateable (comparative more palateable, superlative most palateable)
- Alternative spelling of palatable.
1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Pride and Prejudice: , volume III, London: for T Egerton, , →OCLC, page 188:“I did hear, too, that there was a time, when sermon-making was not so palateable to you, as it seems to be at present; […]”
1862 May 18, “Gen. Mitchel’s Division. The Withdrawal of Gen. Turchin from Tuscumbia.”, in The New York Times, page 3:[…] the rebels made a dive pretty much as sharks do when a palateable man falls overboard.