unglobed
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[edit]unglobed (not comparable)
- Not enclosed in a globe.
- 1898, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Cornhill Magazine, volume 78, page 515:
- I read them by the light of the unglobed gas; the clear, fine penmanship was legible as print, and when I came to the end I cursed the anecdote of the French authors.
- 2001, Allen Kurzweil, A Case of Curiosities:
- She whipped up the cards on the floor, extinguished an unglobed candle, and ruffled open the pages of Claude's copybook.