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形容詞

pierceable (comparative more pierceable, superlative most pierceable)

1. Capable of being pierced; penetrable.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book I, canto I, page 5:

     A ſhadie groue not farr away they ſpide, / That promiſt ayde the tempeſt to withſtand: / Whoſe loftie trees yclad with ſommers pride, / Did ſpred ſo broad, that heauens light did hide, / Not perceable with power of any ſtarr:

   • 1881, Henry James, “Preface”, in The Portrait of a Lady‎^[1], volume 1, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company:

     The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million—a number of possible windows not to be reckoned, rather; every one of which has been pierced, or is still pierceable, in its vast front, by the need of the individual vision and by the pressure of the individual will.