unpeeledadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈpiːld/, U.S. /ˌənˈpild/ Not peeled; not stripped of skin, rind, bark, etc. The reading vnpeeled house in the first Quarto of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost (1598) ii. i. 88 is generally rejected by editors as an error for the vnpeopled house of the Folio. Cf. quot. a1616 at unpeopled adj.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [adjective] > stripped or made bare > stripped of skin, husk, or bark > not peeled
unpilled1538
unpeeled1573
unexcorticated1725
1573 Edinb. Test. III. 31 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Unpelit Ten thraif of vnpelit hempt price x s.
1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 360/2 Take vnpeeled Barlye.., & Misleden.., boyle them together in stronge Lye, till the Barlye burste.
1661 G. Wither Triple Paradox 32 The bitterness Of unpeel'd Wallnut-kernels.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Apricock-tree Those [apricots] that are over-ripe, whether peeled or unpeeled.
1778 M. Elstob Trip to Kilkenny xvi. 191 Potatoes..are always served up unpeeled—each Person at the Table peeling his own.
1814 R. Southey Roderick xviii. 127 He..held a natural cross Of rudest form, unpeel'd, even as it grew On the near oak that morn.
1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 361 Colocynth..comes into the market under the names of Turkey or Peeled Colocynth, and Mogador or Unpeeled Colocynth.
1955 Observer 4 Sept. 13/4 Quarter fill a saucepan with the unpared, unpeeled fruit and just cover with water.
1977 New Yorker 27 June 58/3 He and Lilly built a..cabin of unpeeled, saddle-notched logs.
2012 M. Tausend La Cocina Mexicana 18 Unpeeled garlic cloves can be roasted..until the papery skins blacken.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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