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uncurtained

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ curtained.

Adjective

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uncurtained (not comparable)

  1. Without curtains.
    • 1870, Bret Harte, Notes by Flood and Field:
      Its uncurtained windows were red with the sinking sun, as though bloodshot and inflamed from a too long unlidded existence.
    • 1979, Angela Carter, “The Bloody Chamber”, in Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories, New York: Henry Holt & Co., published 1996, page 129:
      I was alone, but for my reflection in the uncurtained window.

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