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  • adjective Not blackened.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ blackened

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Examples

  • My hand was unblackened when I pulled it away; maybe Alice had known I would need waterproof makeup.

    Twilight Meyer, Stephenie 2005

  • When, however, I called, wearing shoes a little too yellow—unblackened leather had just become fashionable—I realized their extravagance when I saw his eyes fixed upon them; and another day Wilde asked me to tell his little boy a faery-story, and I had but got as far as ‘Once upon a time there was a giant’ when the little boy screamed and ran out of the room.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • When, however, I called, wearing shoes a little too yellow—unblackened leather had just become fashionable—I realized their extravagance when I saw his eyes fixed upon them; and another day Wilde asked me to tell his little boy a faery-story, and I had but got as far as ‘Once upon a time there was a giant’ when the little boy screamed and ran out of the room.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • When, however, I called, wearing shoes a little too yellow—unblackened leather had just become fashionable—I realized their extravagance when I saw his eyes fixed upon them; and another day Wilde asked me to tell his little boy a faery-story, and I had but got as far as ‘Once upon a time there was a giant’ when the little boy screamed and ran out of the room.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • When, however, I called, wearing shoes a little too yellow—unblackened leather had just become fashionable—I realized their extravagance when I saw his eyes fixed upon them; and another day Wilde asked me to tell his little boy a faery-story, and I had but got as far as ‘Once upon a time there was a giant’ when the little boy screamed and ran out of the room.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • When, however, I called, wearing shoes a little too yellow—unblackened leather had just become fashionable—I realized their extravagance when I saw his eyes fixed upon them; and another day Wilde asked me to tell his little boy a faery-story, and I had but got as far as ‘Once upon a time there was a giant’ when the little boy screamed and ran out of the room.

    Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • When, however, I called, wearing shoes a little too yellow—unblackened leather had just become fashionable—I realized their extravagance when I saw his eyes fixed upon them; and another day Wilde asked me to tell his little boy a faery-story, and I had but got as far as ‘Once upon a time there was a giant’ when the little boy screamed and ran out of the room.

    Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Foster, whose unblackened face told at once that he was not one of the guilty party, and who was grasped warmly by the hand by Thomas Bradly and James Barnes, who now came forward.

    True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best Theodore P. Wilson

  • The people everywhere busied in reaping barley -- a very lively scene; the reapers, as usual all over Palestine, wearing large leather aprons exactly like those used by blacksmiths in England, only unblackened by the forge; the women had face veils of the Egyptian pattern.

    Byeways in Palestine James Finn

  • This Negro Jim, drawn from a white schoolboy, with face unblackened, started something in my artistic career.

    Illustrating "Huckleberry Finn" 1929

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