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形容詞

ineffaceable (comparative more ineffaceable, superlative most ineffaceable)

1. Incapable of being effaced.

   Synonym: indelible

   • 1865, Edward Dutton Cook, Sir Felix Foy, Bart. (page 233)

     Mr. Disbrowe was reclining on a well-worn horsehair-covered sofa, his frequent reclinings on which piece of furniture had stamped a deep and quite ineffaceable impression of his weighty form upon the cushion.

   • 1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VII, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, OCLC 166605526:

     […] I am sure of one thing—scars are plenty enough in Germany, among the young men; and very grim ones they are, too. They crisscross the face in angry red welts, and are permanent and ineffaceable.