"eatable" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From eat + -able (“able, capable”).",
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          "text": "The contents of the pan began to boil, and he turned to plunge his hand into the bowl; I conjectured that this preparation was probably for our supper, and, being hungry, I resolved it should be eatable;",
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          "ref": "1891, Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural selection and tropical nature, page 399:",
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          "text": "Their diet includes practically everything eatable they can capture or kill.",
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        "Able to be eaten; edible."
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          "text": "The Excise which is laid very high throughout all Sicily, especially upon all eatables and wearing apparel is usually there […]",
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          "ref": "1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, London: F. Newbery, act II, page 18:",
          "text": "Ecod, your worship, I never have courage till I see the eatables and drinkables brought upo’ the table, and then I’m as bauld as a lion.",
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          "ref": "1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown’s School Days, Part I, Chapter 2:",
          "text": "[…] the ground […] was already being occupied by the “cheap Jacks,” with their green-covered carts and marvellous assortment of wares; and the booths of more legitimate small traders, with their tempting arrays of fairings and eatables; and penny peep-shows and other shows, containing pink-eyed ladies, and dwarfs, and boa-constrictors, and wild Indians.",
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          "ref": "1890, Knut Hamsen, Sult (Hunger), Part One, at p.45 (Canongate Books Ltd. 2016 paperback edition), Sverre Lyngstad translation",
          "text": "Someplace in the Hegdehaugen area I stopped outside a grocer's where some food was displayed in the window. A cat lay asleep beside a round loaf of white bread, and just behind it was a bowl of lard and several jars of oats. I stood eyeing these eatables a while, but since I didn't have anything to buy with I turned away from them and continued my tramp."
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          "ref": "1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 21, in Anne of Green Gables, London: L.C. Page & Co, page 222:",
          "text": "“You’ll be using the best tea-set, of course, Marilla,” she said. “Can I fix up the table with ferns and wild roses?”\n“I think that’s all nonsense,” sniffed Marilla. “In my opinion it’s the eatables that matter and not flummery decorations.”",
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        "(chiefly in the plural) Anything edible; food."
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          "text": "Ecod, your worship, I never have courage till I see the eatables and drinkables brought upo’ the table, and then I’m as bauld as a lion.",
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          "ref": "1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown’s School Days, Part I, Chapter 2:",
          "text": "[…] the ground […] was already being occupied by the “cheap Jacks,” with their green-covered carts and marvellous assortment of wares; and the booths of more legitimate small traders, with their tempting arrays of fairings and eatables; and penny peep-shows and other shows, containing pink-eyed ladies, and dwarfs, and boa-constrictors, and wild Indians.",
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          "ref": "1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 21, in Anne of Green Gables, London: L.C. Page & Co, page 222:",
          "text": "“You’ll be using the best tea-set, of course, Marilla,” she said. “Can I fix up the table with ferns and wild roses?”\n“I think that’s all nonsense,” sniffed Marilla. “In my opinion it’s the eatables that matter and not flummery decorations.”",
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        "(chiefly in the plural) Anything edible; food."
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