单词 | unjacketed |
释义 | unjacketedadj. Not clothed, covered, or surrounded with a jacket (in various senses of the noun).In quot. 1837 probably in metonymic use. ΚΠ 1837 Herald (N.Y.) 27 Feb. Even the pit—the uproarious pit—the unjacketed pit, as it was formerly called—is now filled with better behaved persons. 1896 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 11 Mar. 4/7 No woman who has any regard for herself, will go unjacketed this spring. 1925 Times 17 Aug. 6/2 A single unjacketed saucepan of a capacity equal to twice the amount of water to be put into it. 1980 N. Marsh Photo-finish iv. 86 He..came upon a book... It was unjacketed and the spine was rubbed. 2013 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 24 July 27 Humidity through which the jacketed musicians (and the unjacketed Prommers) struggled with dauntless courage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1837 |
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