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Webster 1913 Edition

Threadbare

Thread′bareˊ

,
Adj.
1.
Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes.
“A threadbare cope.”
Chaucer.
2.
Fig.: Worn out;
as, a
threadbare
subject; stale topics and
threadbare
quotations.
Swift.

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