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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
immaculate
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
conception
▪ The following day, the feast of the immaculate conception, there was a closing ceremony in St Peter's Square.
▪ Some see in it the girdle ot hymen and the promise of the immaculate conception of a Messiah.
condition
▪ The stations and stock were in immaculate condition, and all the staff we met were welcoming and more than polite.
▪ As usual they were lavishly equipped, bristling with the latest electronic gear, and kept in immaculate condition.
▪ LEFT-HANDED Epiphone Sheraton, immaculate condition, £265.
▪ Your Ampeg amp for my Trace Elliot Twin valve combo, immaculate condition.
▪ All boxed and in immaculate condition.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A small but immaculate figure stood in the doorway.
▪ a tiny harbour ringed with immaculate white clapboard houses
▪ an immaculate house
▪ He was dressed in an immaculate navy suit and a crisp white shirt.
▪ Leonardo appeared, immaculate as ever in a dark suit and tie.
▪ Our house was immaculate, and Mother taught us to be polite and deferential to visitors.
▪ She was always elegantly dressed and absolutely immaculate.
▪ She wore an immaculate grey suit and a tasteful, blue woven hat.
▪ tall, blond soldiers in immaculate uniforms
▪ The house was absolutely immaculate.
▪ They dance with immaculate precision.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Excellent plates show every conceivable aspect from his stamp to gilt bronzes and immaculate carving.
▪ He was wearing a grey business suit, an immaculate white shirt and a red and grey striped silk tie.
▪ Inside, the complex is immaculate, with neatly trimmed shrubs and rose bushes lining each building.
▪ Models sported immaculate centre-parted shoulder-length hair and the beginnings of goatee beards.
▪ Sleet was catching on the immaculate lawn of the house next door.
▪ That wild sky and those immaculate rivers come flooding, literally, across the border.
▪ The room is completely immaculate otherwise.
▪ This provided a lifeline for those who could receive it, and an immaculate standard of reporting to measure reality against propaganda.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Immaculate

Immaculate \Im*mac"u*late\, a. [L. immaculatus; pref. im- not + maculatus, p. p. of maculare to spot, stane, fr. macula spot. See Mail armor.] Without stain or blemish; spotless; undefiled; clear; pure.

Were but my soul as pure From other guilt as that, Heaven did not hold One more immaculate.
--Denham.

Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain.
--Shak.

Immaculate conception (R. C. Ch.), the doctrine that the Virgin Mary was conceived without original sin. -- Im*mac"u*late*ly, adv. -- Im*mac"u*late*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
immaculate

early 15c., "free from mental or moral pollution, pure," from a figurative use of Latin immaculatus "unstained," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + maculatus "spotted, defiled," past participle of maculare "to spot," from macula "spot, blemish." The literal sense of "spotlessly clean or neat" in English is first attested 1735. Immaculate Conception is late 15c., from Middle French conception immaculée (late 15c.); declared to be an article of faith in 1854.

Wiktionary
immaculate

a. Having no stain or blemish; spotless, undefiled, clear, pure.

WordNet
immaculate
  1. adj. completely neat and clean; "the apartment was immaculate"; "in her immaculate white uniform"; "a spick-and-span kitchen"; "their spic red-visored caps" [syn: speckless, spick-and-span, spic-and-span, spic, spick, spotless]

  2. free from stain or blemish [syn: undefiled]

  3. without fault or error; "faultless logic"; "speaks impeccable French"; "timing and technique were immaculate"; "an immaculate record" [syn: faultless, impeccable]

Wikipedia
Immaculate (album)

Immaculate is the 5th studio album by Mac Mall. It was released February 27, 2001.

Immaculate (film)

Immaculate'' (Spanish:Immaculada'') is a 1950 Mexican drama film directed by Julio Bracho and starring Rosario Granados, Carlos López Moctezuma and Eduardo Noriega.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Jesús Bracho.

Usage examples of "immaculate".

She was always so self-contained, so immaculate, so perfectly poised and turned out that his need to see her with her mouth swollen after love, her hair tangled by his fingers, her eyes languorous and heavy, her breathing quickened, sharp and desirous, was sometimes so great that he ached to reach out and take hold of her.

I crossed the small empty lobby, Arista appeared out of the shadows, suave and immaculate.

As I crossed the small empty lobby, Arista appeared out of the shadows, suave and immaculate.

This life of Mary began, not with the day of her birth, but with her immaculate conception in the womb of Anne, her mother.

Jerry removed the utensils, again wiped the immaculate bar, and rang the cashless cash-register.

Wherfore in comon places of the Cyte of Athenes he instruct and infourmed the peple in such doctrynes as compasith the clere and immaculate welles of the moste excellent and souerayne gode.

Cuban gangbangers in immaculate low-riders, not an easy group to impress, had been known to drive into ditches in amazement when Dak rocketed past.

His portly figure was clothed in a blue dress coat with brass buttons, a buff waistcoat which permitted his frilled shirtfront to become erectile above it, a black satin stock which confined a boyish turned-down collar around his full neck, and immaculate drill trousers, strapped over varnished boots.

Two days in Ambrai had scarred his immaculate boots and stained his faultless uniform.

He went to the next room, and the next, and in each found the same extravagant furnishings, the same immaculate conditions, the same evidence of greath wealth.

Your jism just floats out in the air like lovely ectoplasm, and female guests are subject to immaculate or at least indirect conception.

From the immaculate Rupert, with his patent-leather shoes and shining tile, down to the cowardly little lisper, Lew Veazie, they were alike detested.

The wood-burning stove was still in its corner and the same mildewed cots hugged the far wall, but John Hardin was using it for a workshop now and his tools were well ordered and in immaculate condition.

If - which was an even chance - Lady Rosnay told the truth when she said she invited Osmond to declare her confidence in him, it might have been reasonable that she should make Sir Bingham come and give the fellow the endorsement of an old cabinet minister of immaculate, dull repute.

Alleyn, stretched luxuriously on a widely-spread tussock, looked across Lake Pukaki to where Aeo-rangi, the cloud-piercer, shone immaculate against the darkening sky.