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Potable   /pˈoʊtəbəl/   Listen
Potable

noun
1.
Any liquid suitable for drinking.  Synonyms: beverage, drink, drinkable.






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"Potable" Quotes from Famous Books



... from clean water. Clean or potable water is a compound which contains a moderate amount of salts, but very little of organic matter. Bacteria should be practically absent. Water that contains much of nitrogenous substances ...
— Maintaining Health • R. L. Alsaker

... dry details. But the soul of its charm no pen can fling on paper. For the stately cathedral stood and lived; the little leaves slumbered yet lived; and the story floated and lived, in the potable ...
— Christie Johnstone • Charles Reade

... behind him for convenience of stride. Ahead of him and around him the swallows circleted over the water-meads or swooped their breasts close to the current of Mere. Beside him strode his shadow, and lengthened as the sun westered in a haze of potable gold. In the haze swam evening odours of mints, grasses, herbs of grace and virtue named in old pharmacopoeias as most medicinal for man, now forgotten, if ...
— Brother Copas • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch



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