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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Cf. F.

accostable

Approachable; affable.

[R.]

Hawthorne.

Adj.

Ease of access; familiar.

accostable ‎(comparative more accostable, superlative most accostable)

(obsolete, rare) Approachable; affable.
- (Can we date this quote?), Nathaniel Hawthorne, (Please provide the title of the work):
  Old soldiers, I know not why, seem to be more accostable than old sailors. One is apt to hear a growl beneath the smoothest courtesy of the latter.

accostable m, f ‎(plural accostables)