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Ready-made

noun

A manufactured artifact (as a garment or piece of furniture) that is made in advance and available for purchase.

adjective

Made for purchase and immediate use.

Repeated regularly without thought or originality. Synonym: cliched.

Commercially produced; not homemade.

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... as breakfast was over, the girls took Myrtle out with them to some of the shops, fitting her to shoes and gloves and having her try on some ready-made gowns so that they might be quickly altered for her use. Patsy also bought her a set of soft and pretty furs, thinking she might need them on the journey if the weather continued cool, and this seemed to cap ...

— Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John • Edith Van Dyne

... that in the highest things we depend upon the key-note of the soul. Knowledge thereby becomes an intimate personal concern. But this is what it really is to the Mystic. Tell some one the solution of the riddle of the universe! Give it him ready-made! The Mystic will find it to be nothing but empty sound, if the personality does not meet the solution half-way in the right manner. The solution in itself is nothing; it vanishes if the necessary ...

— Christianity As A Mystical Fact - And The Mysteries of Antiquity • Rudolf Steiner

... in the glass. He wore no longer the well-cut clothes of Mr. Douglas Romilly's Saville Row tailor, but a ready-made suit of Schmitt & Mayer's business reach-me-downs, an American ...

— The Cinema Murder • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... to the lawn looking his most spruce; he had evidently tried to tidy himself, having shaved and put on a clean collar of extraordinarily antiquated make. His clothes might have had "American ready-made" written upon them. He advanced towards them slowly, ...

— Secret Bread • F. Tennyson Jesse

... it was even necessary to clear the face of the earth of it, in order to save our faith in God. At the same time Dr. Gordon said frankly that he had no other as complete and finished system to put in place of it. Was he justified in telling the truth about Calvinism because he has not a ready-made scheme to substitute ...

— Our Unitarian Gospel • Minot Savage

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