perdurable

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The specter of this guilt -- this perdurable archetype of the hostile homecoming -- animates today’s encounters, which seem to have swung to the other unthinking extreme.

From BusinessWeek • Aug. 2, 2011

The house is surrounded by 200 rosebushes, all tended by a very tall gardener with thorn scratches on his hands and a look of perdurable tweed.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the steady gleam of the picture is the inimitable, jug-eared, perdurable Clark Gable, 45, back from the wars and still going strong.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is more interested in the use of things to give him the good life than in the possession of perdurable objects that will reassure him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chaucer is not what we understand by a great poet; he has none of the imaginative comprehension and little of the music that belong to one: but he has perdurable qualities.

From Aspects of Literature by Murry, J. Middleton