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unˈwalled, (ppl.) a.
[un-1 8 and 9.]
Not furnished with, or defended by, a wall.
c1440Jacob's Well 114 Slowthe makyth þe as a cyte vn⁓wallyd. 1542Elyot s.v. Arabia, The townes ar vnwalled, bycause the people doo alwaye lyue in peace. 1577Harrison England ii. xiii. (1877) i. 255 The citie..laie then vn⁓walled. 1589Bigges Sum. Drake's W. Ind. Voy. 31 There was onely so much of this straight vnwalled, as might serue for the issuing of the horsemen. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 336 China has no fewer than..2000 wall'd Townes; 4000 unwalled. 1690C. Nesse O. & N. Test. I. 14 The soul now dwells in an unwalled, unfortifyed city. 1760–2Goldsm. Cit. W. cxxii, An unwalled town, called Islington. 1807J. Barlow Columb. x. 540 Cities unwalled stand sparkling to the sun. 1860O. W. Holmes Elsie V. xviii, The round unwalled horizon of the open sea. |