unnapped
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unnapped (not comparable)
- Finished without a nap.
- 1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Nathan Field, “The Knight of Malta”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 71, column 1:
- Did I attempt her with a thred-bare name—unnapt with meritorious actions, [...]
- 1952, Louis C. McCabe, Air Pollution: Proceedings, page 284:
- Napping permits a more permeable cake on the fabric surface but, in some cases, is more difficult to clean than unnapped cloth.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unnapped”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)