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  • adjective Not powdered.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ powdered

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Examples

  • Jackie Peyton shlumps through her storylines in trainers and an anorak, unpowdered T-zone glinting ferociously under hospital striplights.

    With The Big C, Nurse Jackie and Weeds, US TV has given us women who are more than just Mistresses 2011

  • He wore riding breeches and boots with a brown jacket and his hair was unpowdered.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • He wore riding breeches and boots with a brown jacket and his hair was unpowdered.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • He wore riding breeches and boots with a brown jacket and his hair was unpowdered.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • We may have won the Revolutionary War, unpowdered our wigs and freed ourselves from monarchical conventions.

    Her Majesty 2007

  • He wore his hair long and unpowdered, not classically handsome, he was also blind in one eye, refusing to wear an eye patch.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

  • They came down – stairs with powder before them and powder behind, the elder sister haughty and the younger sister humbled, and were shut out into unpowdered Harley Street, Cavendish Square.

    Little Dorrit 2007

  • His eyes were bloodshot, his face livid, his clothes were hanging loose about him, and he who had always made his appearance on parade as precisely dressed as any sergeant of his troops, might have been seen galloping through the lonely streets at early dawn without a hat, his unpowdered hair streaming behind him like a madman.

    The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

  • ‘Old fool!’ said she; and she jumped at the bell, which was quickly answered by a mouldy-looking gentleman in an unpowdered wig, to whom she cried, ‘Say Lady Lyndon is here;’ and stalked down the passage muttering ‘Old fool.’

    The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

  • You can leave your cheeks unpowdered for more of a glow, but powdering them will make the color last longer.

    the new beauty secrets Laura Mercier 2006

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