Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of slatiness.
They attend at the association’s offices, open the sample and cut the beans with a pen knife and examine the interior for slateyness or mould, or other defects.
1987, Derek Kirby Johnson, “Usual procedure: cocoa”, in Ronald Bernstein, Handbook of Arbitration Practice, London: Sweet & Maxwell in conjunction with The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, published 1988, →ISBN, part 4 (Commodity Trade Arbitration), chapter 47 (Quality/Condition Arbitrations), page 2101 more example
The rocks, ovoid and round where they had been worn smooth by the working of the glacier, seemed to change position as the boat moved in toward the shore at an angle, the mountains behind sliding into position and opening out to show the slateyness of the sky.
1963, John Harris, “Part Four”, in The Unforgiving Wind, New York, N.Y.: William Sloane Associates, published 1964, →LCCN, →OCLC, section 2, page 334
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