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uncrisped

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Verb

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uncrisped

  1. simple past and past participle of uncrisp

Adjective

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uncrisped (comparative more uncrisped, superlative most uncrisped)

  1. 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.