unsewedadj.
(un- prefix1 2a, 2c) Also with adverbs, as together, up.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [adjective] > stitched or sewn > not
unsewed?c1225
unstitched1599
unsewn1648
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 254 Claðes unsowet. bireined unweschen.
c1325 Pilate 169 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 115 Oure louerdes curtel he dude on..Þat vnsued was of þred.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) John xix. 23 The cote..was vnsowed from aboue, wrought thorow and thorow.
?1545 J. Bale 2nd Pt. Image Both Churches ii. Pref. sig. Aiiij An heape of barbarouse termes and vnsowed togyther sentences.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. iv. sig. Cc3 But the bare ground..Must be their bed, their pillow was vnsowed . View more context for this quotation
1603 J. Davies Extasie in Microcosmos 237 On either side from her Armes to her Wast, It was vnsow'd, and made with Buttons fast.
1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. i. 2 If slits in petticoats are unsew'd up.
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