Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not fabled or imaginary; not mentioned in fable; unconnected or unmixed with fable; real.

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Examples

  • The unfabled Sonora Building, which from the outside occupies a rung immediately above a down-at-the-heels warehouse/office building.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Steve Hulett 2007

  • The unfabled Sonora Building, which from the outside occupies a rung immediately above a down-at-the-heels warehouse/office building.

    In and Around the Disney Studios Steve Hulett 2007

  • Sindbad, but sparely, as those gems lie in unfabled beds?

    Villette 2003

  • They are less probable, and therefore less amusing than ordinary stories; but they are more amusing than plain, unfabled precept.

    Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899

  • What did she think of the few kind words scattered here and there-not thickly, as the diamonds were scattered in the valley of Sindbad, but sparely, as those gems lie in unfabled beds?

    Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835

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