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- adjective Not
whitened .
Etymologies
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Examples
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On many of the outer walls of upper stories the whitewash has been stopped within a foot of the coping, the unwhitened portion of the walls at the top having the effect of a frieze.
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The house has but one story; the timbers of the roof, unwhitened, forming the only ceiling.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various
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HURST, William Randolph, father of the American unwhitened newspapers.
Who Was Who: 5000 B.C. to Date: Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be. 1914
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That the sepulchre should be filled with dead men's bones might cause him pain, but that it should be unwhitened would be, to him, a thing far more terrible.
The Wooden Horse Hugh Walpole 1912
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Paint her golden hair unwhitened while the many winters fall,
The World's Desire Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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On many of the outer walls of upper stories the whitewash has been stopped within a foot of the coping, the unwhitened portion of the walls at the top having the effect of a frieze.
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