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unˈwrinkled, ppl. a. [un-1 8.] Free from wrinkles; smooth. In freq. use from c 1820, esp. with ‘brow’ or ‘forehead’.
1576Newton Lemnie's Complex. i. vi. 36 b, The forhead smoth, cheerefull and vnwrynckled. 1592Sir T. More iii. i. 172 Mercie, whose maiestick browe Should be vnwrinckled. 1643Davenant Unfort. Lovers iii. D 4 b, Thy brow Is quite unwrinckled. a1649Crashaw Glorious Epiphany 28 The world's one, round, æternall year, Whose full and all⁓unwrinkled face Nor sinks nor swells with time or place. 1783Mason Du Fresnoy's Art Paint. 283 So the liberal vest In large, distinct, unwrinkled folds should fly. 1784Cowper Task iv. 4 The wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright. 1801Coleridge Fragm., The Moon 5 Trees, herbage, snake-like stream, un⁓wrinkled Lake. 1864Bryant Sella 510 Still she kept her fair Unwrinkled features. 1881Longmans' Notes on Bks. 31 Aug. 83/2 The unwrinkled portrait which Cromwell feared that Lely might draw of himself. 1885[W. H. White] Mark Rutherford's Deliverance vii, Her dress was unwrinkled. fig.1582Bentley Mon. Matrones 74 To leane to..God, and his smooth and vnwrinkled Church. 1648Crashaw Delights Muses, Musicks Duell 39 A Nightingale..Trayles her plaine Ditty in one long-spun note,..A cleare un⁓wrinckled song. 1822Coleridge Lett., Conv., etc. II. 79, I am, with unwrinkled confidence,..Your affectionate friend. |