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  • adjective Not tattered.

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un- +‎ tattered

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Examples

  • There stood, in the midst of the group of boys, little Bobby Frog, with his face washed, his hair cropped and shining, his garments untattered, and himself looking as meek and "respectable" as the best of them.

    Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure 1859

  • There are banners, so fresh in their hues, and so untattered, that I think they must be modern, suspended along beneath the cornice of the hall, and exhibiting Wolsey's arms and badges.

    Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • There are banners, so fresh in their hues, and so untattered, that I think they must be modern, suspended along beneath the cornice of the hall, and exhibiting Wolsey's arms and badges.

    Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • I have said nothing about the magnificence of the scenery for a part of the way, where the road goes through a grand mountain pass, where all the vegetable glories of the tropics seem assembled, and one gets a new idea of what scenery can be; while beneath superb tree-ferns and untattered bananas, and palms, and bright-flowered lianas, and graceful trailers, and vermilion-colored orchids, and under sun-birds and humming birds and the most splendid butterflies

    The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

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