unpared
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]unpared (not comparable)
- Not pared.
- 1859, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 18, April, 1859[1]:
- Meanwhile he surveyed the room as minutely as if it had been a museum,--trying the rocking-chair, examining pictures, snapping vases with his unpared nails, opening costly books, smelling of scent-bottles, scanning the anti-Macassars and the Berlin-wool mats.
- 1903, Helen Campbell, The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking[2]:
- If unpared, wash and wipe each one to rub off the wool.