unlaving
English
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- (archaic) Not washing; not bathing.
- 1860, Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Historical Romances, volume 13, page 100:
- The poem concluded, those who took only the cold bath began to undress; they […] withdrew into that graceful and circular building which yet exists, to shame the unlaving posterity of the south.
- 1885, Bible Flowers and Flower Lore, page 130:
- Together with a number of allied plants, the peasants in the Holy Land burn it for exportation still; and the soap used by the unlaving Greeks and Egyptians is nearly all of it imported from Nablus — the ancient Shechem of the Bible — in Palestine.