a1652 R. Brome Eng. Moor iii. iii. 48 in Five New Playes (1659) Of all ages that are pressable; From sixteen unto sixty.

1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 156 Which,..I think..is pressable upon rich exempted persons now.

1872 T. Hardy Under Greenwood Tree I. i. viii. 120 Fancy! during the whole past evening touchable, pressable—even kissable.

1889 Times 22 Oct. 4/5 Bread must be spongily ‘new’, pressable.

1924 Clearfield (Pa.) Progress 21 Mar. 6/3 We will take the vest and trousers of the same suit and go through the same operation, having them pressed as soon as they are pressable.

1983 N.Y. Times 10 Mar. a27/2 Local politicians poke them to see if their flesh is pressable.

1999 D. A. Baldwin & J. A. Baird in P. Rochat Early Social Cognition iii. ix. 233 Infants may be insensitive to the distinctly different intentions underlying these very similar finger-pressing movements; they simply may not know enough about paper, TVs, and other pressable things.

2003 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 27 Nov. 17 If pressable flowers are in short supply in midwinter, the autumn has provided a spectacular harvest of leaves.

1801 Times 27 July 3/2 Two or three press-gangs..searched several public-houses, where they found above twenty seamen... On Saturday morning they were brought before the Lord Mayor, when sixteen of them were found to be pressable.

1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log I. ii. 50 Pick up all the information you can regarding the haunts of the pressable men at Cove.

1978 N. Tolstoy Half-mad Lord iii. 51 Captain Anderson's concealment of the pressable seamen of the Kitty was a legitimate..measure.