uncrisped
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[edit]Verb
[edit]uncrisped
- simple past and past participle of uncrisp
Adjective
[edit]uncrisped (comparative more uncrisped, superlative most uncrisped)
- Not crisped.
- 1628, William Prynne, The Unloveliness of Love-Lockes[1], London, page 54:
- [God] hath designed such naturall, and vnadorned, or vncrisped Haire vnto vs as is most comely, proper, and behoofull for vs:
- 1843, Ezekiel Bacon, Recollections of Fifty Years Since, Utica, NY: R.W. Roberts, p. 19,[2]
- plain unfrizzled and uncrisped locks
- 1901, Frances Harper, “Moses”, in Idylls of the Bible[3], Philadelphia, page 23:
- And yet the bush, with leaves uncrisped, uncurled,
Was just as green and fresh as if the breath
Of early spring were kissing every leaf.