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unˈpowdered, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not sprinkled with salt.
c1440Promp. Parv. 366/2 On-powderyd, on-saltyd, insalitus. 1619Hieron Wks. II. 484 As an vnpowdered masse of flesh..is enough to poyson with the stench. Ibid. 492 Those particulars..will, like so many vnpowdered morsels mixed in with others, make the whole lump to become vnsauory.
2. Not whitened with hair-powder.
1751Johnson Rambler No. 109 ⁋6 My hair unpowdered, and my hat uncocked. 1847Lytton Lucretia i. i, The dark hair which he wore unpowdered. 1898R. Hichens Londoners vii, Various footmen, powdered and unpowdered.
3. Not wearing face-powder; without face-powder.
1917J. F. MacDonald Two Towns—One City iii. ii. 210 Flushed, and dishevelled, and unpowdered Fifine becomes. 1921W. de la Mare Mem. Midget xli. 276 Her clear, unpowdered skin had the faint sheen of a rose. 1956‘C. Blackstock’ Dewey Death iii. 59 The fair hair was falling over her face; her skin was blotched and unpowdered. 1974J. Mann Sticking Place v. 88 Look at her now, shabby, unpowdered. |