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unˈpolishable, a. (un-1 7 b.)
1687J. Reynolds Death's Vis. Pref. (1713) 3 'Tis true such Matter is Restive, Refractory and Unpolishable Enough. a1797H. Walpole Mem. Geo. II (1822) I. 170 The duke's outside was unpolished, his inside unpolishable. 1836Landor Pericles & Asp. Wks. 1846 II. 416 A coarse grained, unpolishable people. 1863Hawthorne Old Home (1879) 344 The unpolishable ruggedness of the native character. |